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y separately published work icon The Summer of '82 single work   biography  
Alternative title: The Summer of Nineteen Eighty-Two
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The Summer of '82
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'Do you remember finishing your last Year 12 exam and wondering what to do next? Do you remember waiting for your results and being stuck in limbo? Do you remember going to gigs, forming a band, getting bottles thrown at you by skinheads, making a bomb and getting arrested? Do you remember hitch-hiking to Mildura to see the love of your life, but ending up in a caravan park by yourself on New Year’s Eve?'

'You don’t? What? Did all this only happen to Dave O’Neil?'

'That’s what this book is about – the summer in which Dave finished school and waited ten weeks to find out whether he’d make it into uni or have to get that trade his dad kept banging on about. The Summer of ’82 is a hilarious and heartfelt journey of a boy becoming a man in suburban Australia.' (Source: Publisher's website)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2016 .
      image of person or book cover 8950538165778564116.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • First published August 2016
      ISBN: 9781863958646

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

The Summer of `82 Review : Dave O'Neil's Recollections of a Summer to Remember Steven Carroll , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 September 2016;

— Review of The Summer of '82 Dave O'Neil , 2016 single work biography
'Someone's got to be responsible, so I'm not going to tell you how Dave O'Neil and his high school mates made a bomb during the long break after finishing HSC. It's devastatingly simple, it works and landed them at the Nunawading Police Station. ...'
The Summer of `82 Review : Dave O'Neil's Recollections of a Summer to Remember Steven Carroll , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 September 2016;

— Review of The Summer of '82 Dave O'Neil , 2016 single work biography
'Someone's got to be responsible, so I'm not going to tell you how Dave O'Neil and his high school mates made a bomb during the long break after finishing HSC. It's devastatingly simple, it works and landed them at the Nunawading Police Station. ...'
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