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'Fourteen is this generation’s Holding the Man – a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man’s search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school.
'This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland. It was a year in which I started to discover who I was, and deeply hated what was revealed. It was a year in which I had my first crush and first devastating heartbreak. It was a year of torment, bullying and betrayal – not just at the hands of my peers, but by adults who were meant to protect me.
'And it was a year that almost ended tragically.
'I found solace in writing and my budding journalism; in a close-knit group of friends, all growing up too quickly together; and in the fierce protection of family and a mother’s unconditional love. These were moments of light and hilarity that kept me going.
'As much as Fourteen is a chronicle of the enormous struggle and adversity I endured, and the shocking consequences of it all, it’s also a tale of survival.
'Because I did survive.
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Memoir.
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In September 2020, it was announced that Orange Entertainment Co. had acquired the screen rights to the memoir
Source: https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/09/17/156739/molloy-memoir-fourteen-to-be-adapted-for-screen/ (Sighted: 17/9/2020)
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Works about this Work
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Life beyond Trauma
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23 May 2020; (p. 17)
— Review of The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; The Lotus Eaters : A Memoir 2020 single work autobiography ; Fourteen 2020 single work autobiography'As a young journalist, I wrote a lot about trauma. The federal Sex Discrimination Act was less than a decade old when I first joined a newsroom in the early 1990s and its passage helped broaden the public discussion of intimate crimes such as sexual assault and domestic violence, previously considered verboten in polite society.' (Introduction)
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Life beyond Trauma
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23 May 2020; (p. 17)
— Review of The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; The Lotus Eaters : A Memoir 2020 single work autobiography ; Fourteen 2020 single work autobiography'As a young journalist, I wrote a lot about trauma. The federal Sex Discrimination Act was less than a decade old when I first joined a newsroom in the early 1990s and its passage helped broaden the public discussion of intimate crimes such as sexual assault and domestic violence, previously considered verboten in polite society.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2021 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir designed by W H Chong
- 2021 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Biography of the Year
- Yeppoon, Yeppoon - Byfield area, Rockhampton - Yeppoon area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,
- Yeppoon, Yeppoon - Byfield area, Rockhampton - Yeppoon area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,
