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This well loved and best-selling Australian gay story is now a major film featuring Ryan Corr and Craig Stott, based on the hit Tommy Murphy play and directed by Neil Armfield. This movie tie-in edition has just been released to coincide with it, and features a foreword by journalist and author David Marr.
The mid-seventies: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and, ultimately, death.
With honesty and insight, ''Holding the Man'' explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV. This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving; a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay, and a true Australian classic!
'A monumentally loved book: just mention its title and it's enough to trigger off a wave of people's recollections of first reading it and the emotional toll it took on them . . . an Australian classic.' Benjamin Law
'A fine, tender and sexy book.' David Marr
Paperback, 304 Pages, Orig. Publ. 1995, This Edition Published August 2015
Author : Timothy Conigrave