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Holding the Man

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Description for Holding the Man Paperback. The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are a gay boy in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne. Still, despite the odds, Tim and John become close and for fifteen years their relationship survives everything life throws at it - until the only problem that love can't solve turns up to part them. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 146.

Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures.

The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.

Against the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it – the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies ... Read more

Tommy Murphy's play Holding the Man was first performed in Sydney, Australia, in 2006. It had its UK premiere at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End in 2010.

‘Tommy Murphy is a bewitching playwright of startling originality’ - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company 

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848421080
SKU
9781848421080
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Tommy Murphy
Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright best known for his stage and screen adaptations of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man, which won numerous awards including Best Play at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, an award he also won for Strangers in Between. Timothy Conigrave (19 November 1959 – 18 October 1994) was an Australian actor, ... Read more

Reviews for Holding the Man
'Fresh, frank and funny... a wrenchingly moving love story I defy anyone with a pulse not to relate to'
Evening Standard
'Compelling, wrenching… unflinching, devastating, moving and funny’
Sydney Morning Herald

Goodreads reviews for Holding the Man


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