- Australian football, Race relations, Prejudices, Sports
Fourteen-year-old Gary Black's life in Australia centers around his large family and footy (Australian football), until he becomes friends with an Aborigine boy and realizes how horrible prejudice can be.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Phillip Gwynne
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- penguin, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141300498
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