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Story of Danny Dunn, by Bryce Courtenay

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Story of Danny Dunn

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by Bryce Courtenay

In the 1930's, two opportunities existed for boys of Balmain, a working class Sydney suburb, to be selected into Fort Street Boys School or to excel as a sportsman. At just sixteen years Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brains, looks, sporting aptitude - and luck with the ladies. His parents run the favorite local watering hole, and the whole of Balmain is proud of Danny's sporting prowess. HIs mother, though, steers Danny towards a university education; but with just six months of his degree to go he signs up for the AIF, driven by a desire to serve his country and plain wanderlust. Danny serves in south-east Asia, spending three and a half years as POW, and returns a broken man, embittered and facially disfigured. He has told no one of his return, and as he sails towards the Balmain ferry terminal he knows life in beloved Balmain will have nothing to do with the life led before the war, and he is scared and overwhelmed by the need to sort himself out, find out who the hell he is .

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