Out With The Boys: the Sharpie Days

By Mr Kim Hewett

Welcome to 1960s Sydney, Australia. Meet 'the Seagull', otherwise known as Kim, a 10 year old working-class Italian boy who moves from a semi-rural setting to the inner city suburb of Waterloo in 1961. It's difficult to make friends and Kim soon realises his only choices are between being the good boy his mother wants or trying to fit in with a gang called the Sharpies. The world of the Sharpies both captivates and frightens him, but if he's to survive Kim must learn how to tread a careful path through the maze of rules and codes they follow. In order to become one of the boys he becomes the Seagull, denying his ethnic identity, floating between two worlds like a bird fighting against the wind. Immerse yourself in the musical tastes, fashion, sexuality and morality of the Sharpies as they clash with conventional ideas of what it was to be a 'man' in the 1960's.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484058194
• ISBN13: 9781484058190
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"