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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Sparring with Shadows
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'David Martinesi is a first-generation Italian Australian growing up in an inner-city suburb. He is fighting the shadows cast by his Italian upbringing, and this summer he is quietly waiting for change. 

'Change comes when he is befriended by confident, street-wise Nathan.

'But tragedy comes too…'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2016 ed.).

Notes

  • Dedication: To Alyssa, Laurence and Pina, to finally know yourself is to be set free.
  • Dedication: Also for the family and friends who enrich my life.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1997 .
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      Extent: 218p.
      ISBN: 0140386564
    • Seven Hills, Blacktown area, Sydney Outer West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Five Senses Education , 2016 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 218p.p.
      Edition info: 20th anniversary ed.
      ISBN: 9781760321857

Works about this Work

Tales My Nonna Told Me Archimede Fusillo , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literary and Social Diasporas : An Italian Australian Perspective 2007; (p. 51-57)
Encore for a Wog Writer Sparring with English Janet Leigh , 2000 single work interview
— Appears in: Italy Down Under , Winter no. 2 2000;
'Sparring with Shadows' - a Reflection Archimede Fusillo , 1998 single work criticism autobiography
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 6 no. 1 1998; (p. 8-9)
Ethnic Angst David McVeigh , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 25 no. 1 1998; (p. 101-103)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Gerard Ross , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Autumn vol. 10 no. 1 1998; (p. 131-133)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel ; Letters from Byron Jim Williams , 1997 selected work correspondence
Untitled 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 33)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Jane Connolly , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 12 no. 5 1997; (p. 37)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Stella Lees , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 September 1997; (p. 10)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel
Gritty Fantasy Stephen Matthews , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 196 1997; (p. 60-61)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel ; Black Ice Lucy Sussex , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Gerard Ross , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Autumn vol. 10 no. 1 1998; (p. 131-133)

— Review of Sparring with Shadows Archimede Fusillo , 1997 single work novel ; Letters from Byron Jim Williams , 1997 selected work correspondence
Tales My Nonna Told Me Archimede Fusillo , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literary and Social Diasporas : An Italian Australian Perspective 2007; (p. 51-57)
Encore for a Wog Writer Sparring with English Janet Leigh , 2000 single work interview
— Appears in: Italy Down Under , Winter no. 2 2000;
'Sparring with Shadows' - a Reflection Archimede Fusillo , 1998 single work criticism autobiography
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 6 no. 1 1998; (p. 8-9)
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