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y separately published work icon Leather Soul single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Leather Soul
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'Bob Murphy has never been a typical footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in a quiet corner of a Fitzroy café or the front bar of a grungy pub as he is in the locker room.

'Murphy takes the reader inside his 17-year career, including his three years as captain of the Bulldogs, exploring the people, places and events that shaped him: from playing backyard cricket in 1980s Warragul to Community Cup with Paul Kelly in the 2000s, and from the joy of marrying his high-school crush to the agony of a season-ending ACL ruptures.

'How did the country kid with a gypsy’s heart become an All-Australian captain? What’s it like to have your club win the grand final for the first time in 62 years and have to cheer from the sidelines? How does it feel to realise you can no longer do the things that made you great?

'The celebrated Australian football bard Martin Flanagan has long insisted Bob Murphy has a book in him like no footballer has written. Leather Soul proves him right.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2018 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 July 2018.

      ISBN: 9781760640521, 9781743820568

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon A Conversation with Bob Murphy Judi Mitchell (interviewer), 2018 23468192 2018 single work podcast interview

'Judi Mitchell chats with footballer Bob Murphy about his new memoir, Leather Soul.'  (Production summary)

y separately published work icon A Conversation with Bob Murphy Judi Mitchell (interviewer), 2018 23468192 2018 single work podcast interview

'Judi Mitchell chats with footballer Bob Murphy about his new memoir, Leather Soul.'  (Production summary)

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