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Author Armanno, Venero, 1959- author

Title Burning down / Venero Armanno
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2017

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Contents Cover; Author Biography; Also by Venero Armanno; Title Page; Imprint Page; Dedication; Part One; Part Two; Acknowledgements
Summary What if you had one last chance to make amends? Award-winning novelist Venero Armanno returns with a gripping novel about the high price of success. Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He's lost his wife and daughter to his questionable past, but when he meets Holly Banks and her teenage son, Ricky, he has a chance to do things differently. As an unlikely friendship develops with Ricky, Charlie is unwittingly pulled back into the gambling underworld he thought he'd left behind. In order to make a new future, first he must help settle some old scores. Burning Down is a searing new novel from acclaimed storyteller Venero Armanno about family, regret, love and the promise of salvation
Analysis Australian
Subject Families -- Fiction
Regret -- Fiction
Romance fiction
FICTION -- General.
Families
Regret
Romance fiction
Genre/Form Romance fiction
Fiction
Romance fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780702259319
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