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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Burning Down
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'Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He has lost his wife and his daughter Sissy to his questionable past. When he meets Holly Banks and her teenage son Ricky, he has the chance to do things differently this time around.

'As an unlikely friendship develops with Ricky, Charlie is unwittingly pulled back into the gambling underworld he thought he had left behind. In order to make a new future, first he must settle some old scores. Burning Down is a searing new novel from acclaimed storyteller Venero Armanno about family, regret, love and the promise of salvation.' 

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Notes

  • Dedication: To Carmelo, never a boxer but always a fighter.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2017 .
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      Extent: 280p.
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      • Publication Date:   28 August 2017
         

      ISBN: 9780702259708

Works about this Work

Gloves Come off in Male Weepie Robyn Walton , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25 November 2017; (p. 20)

— Review of Burning Down Venero Armanno , 2017 single work novel

'Venero Armanno writes with empathy about boys growing up, youths in love, adult men in extended families and lone male sojourners.' (Introduction)

Gloves Come off in Male Weepie Robyn Walton , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25 November 2017; (p. 20)

— Review of Burning Down Venero Armanno , 2017 single work novel

'Venero Armanno writes with empathy about boys growing up, youths in love, adult men in extended families and lone male sojourners.' (Introduction)

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