y separately published work icon Swimming Upstream single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Swimming Upstream
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'A powerful story of a young boy growing up in the shadow of a violent father. Set in hot, slow Queensland of the 50s, this is an inspirational story about swimming, about family life and about the courage to persist when everything else seems hopeless.' (Publisher's blurb)

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Swimming Upstream Anthony Fingleton , Diane Fingleton , ( dir. Russell Mulcahy ) Australia : Crusader Entertainment , 2003 Z1015728 2003 single work film/TV (taught in 2 units)

Film adaptation of Anthony Fingleton's autobiography.

Notes

  • Adapted by Tony Fingleton and Diane Fingleton for the 2002 film Swimming Upstream.

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Subjects:
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
Settings:
  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • ca. 1940-1959
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