{"product_id":"9781925355062","title":"The Fighter","description":"Author: Zable, Arnold\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925355062\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Apr 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Nissen was a champion boxer, the boy from Amess Street in  working-class Carlton who fought his way up to beat some of the world's  best in the 1970s. Now, he works on the Melbourne docks, loading and  unloading, taking shifts as they come up. But his real work is on the  streets. He's in and out of police stations and courts giving character  statements and providing support, working to give the disaffected  another chance.\u003cbr\u003e And all the while, in the background is the memory of another fighter, his mother-and her devastating decline into madness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Fighter\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving and poetic portrait of a compassionate man, but also a window onto the unnoticed recesses of Melbourne.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Arnold Zable is a writer who turns the unnoticed and the overlooked into something fine and lustrous.' \u003ci\u003eCourier-Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Arnold  Zable is a long-distance athlete among novelists, and his command of his  material is superb...Years of reflection and his own life experiences  have contributed to the mastery with which Zable explores the themes of  displacement, loss, nostalgia and homecoming in all of his books.'                 \u003ci\u003eCanberra Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48165352276126,"sku":"UBD-9781925355062","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925355062.jpg?v=1787135014","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925355062","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}