Copyboy : a novel / by Barrie McMahon.
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TextPublisher: Fremantle, Western Australia : Vivid Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 379 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925209266Other title: Copy boySubject(s): Suspense fiction, AustralianGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Short of a good murder, sin, sensation and sex in salacious detail were always standard fare for Perth's Mirror newspaper. With the departure of American troops in 1946, new sources of scandal were needed. Straight from school Alf McGuinness lands a job with The Mirror as a copyboy and immediately finds himself in a fix. He and his rebellious friend Jenny Anderson are small players in the thriving post-war black market but The Mirror reporters are digging for sensation in the contraband economy. The more Alf and Jenny try to reconcile their conflicting pursuits the deeper their predicament becomes. Their lives threaten to unravel.
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Short of a good murder, sin, sensation and sex in salacious detail were always standard fare for Perth's Mirror newspaper. With the departure of American troops in 1946, new sources of scandal were needed. Straight from school Alf McGuinness lands a job with The Mirror as a copyboy and immediately finds himself in a fix. He and his rebellious friend Jenny Anderson are small players in the thriving post-war black market but The Mirror reporters are digging for sensation in the contraband economy. The more Alf and Jenny try to reconcile their conflicting pursuits the deeper their predicament becomes. Their lives threaten to unravel.
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