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'“Ding! Round One.” This repeated opening sentence leads to hard-hitting moments in Daniel Tamone’s debut novel, The Fists of the Father, which centres on three generations of an Australian boxing family. For the youngest, 25-year-old Ted “Little Boy Blue” Taylor, the opening round started not when he first entered the ring but when he was a child facing his father’s “monstrous hands’’ in the family home in Sydney’s west.' (Introduction)
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Daniel Tamone The Fists of the Father
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