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by Michael
Hyde
ISBN
0 9577352 2 7 RRP $16.95
Seventeen-year-old
footballer, Johnny Carbone is a flawed genius. One
day kicking goals from the boundary, forty metres out
and the next, kicking into the man on the mark when
he has the chance to win the game for his team, The
Ballantyne Tigers. He has dreams of playing at the top
level but can’t ‘get it all together’.
Johnny
is dogged by a constant nightmare where he follows,
and then is hunted himself, by a dark animal he doesn’t
recognise. He develops a friendship with an old man,
Charlie, who unwittingly provides Johnny with one of
the keys to his dream; the nemesis of his sleeping story.
has captured the heart and soul of our great game. It's
truly engrossing . . . a wonderful read.
Richard ‘Ossie’ Osborne,
over 300 VFL/AFL games
Michael
Hyde’s writing is simultaneously direct and allusive,
poetic and frank in its perceptive exploration of adolescent
identity.
Pam Macintyre, editor ViewPoint
Hyde
is definitely a writer worth watching.
Stephen Matthews, Australian
Book Review
Tyger,
Tyger is about young men growing up; the symbols
that guide our lives; fathers and sons; and the poetry
of sport.
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