{"product_id":"excitable-boy-essays-on-risk","title":"Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhat happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these original essays, Dominic Gordon, explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. \u003cem\u003eExcitable Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is an immersive experience of what it was like growing up in and around criminal-class and working-class culture in the inner city of Melbourne at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction by Christos Tsiolkas.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eDominic Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e is from Melbourne. His work has appeared \u003ci\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Suburban Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVisible Ink\u003c\/i\u003e and other literary journals. In 2016 he created and produced a radio play that was broadcast on Radio National’s, \u003ci\u003eSoundproof\u003c\/i\u003e program, called \u003ci\u003eCooked in the Big Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2018 Dominic was awarded a Berry Street Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria. \u003ci\u003eExcitable Boy: Essays on Risk\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book. ISBN: 978-0-6458745-5-6 Cover image: Family photograph of the author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upswell Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 210x150mm \/ 176 pages","offer_id":42238583963703,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/7771\/2951\/files\/Upswell-2024_Excitable-Boy_Front-cover.jpg?v=1779074749","url":"https:\/\/upswell-publishing.myshopify.com\/products\/excitable-boy-essays-on-risk","provider":"Upswell Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}