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'On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, cheeky grommet, brilliant surfer, Australian sporting hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, big wave charger. Inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction, part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he'd done so much to legitimise. Tom's family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened – but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake ...
'This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Sun-Kissed on Waves of Joy
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 January 2014; (p. 19)
— Review of TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography ; That Summer at Boomerang 2014 single work biography -
Review : Fiction
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 December 2013; (p. 24)
— Review of An Elegant Young Man 2013 selected work short story ; TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography ; Selective Memory : A Life in Film 2013 single work autobiography ; Passion Play : The Oberammergau Tales 2013 single work novel -
Dirty Secrets From the Surf
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 December 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography -
In Short : Non-Fiction
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 December 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 7 December 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Selective Memory : A Life in Film 2013 single work autobiography ; TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography
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In Short : Non-Fiction
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 December 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 7 December 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Selective Memory : A Life in Film 2013 single work autobiography ; TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography -
Dirty Secrets From the Surf
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 December 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography -
Review : Fiction
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 December 2013; (p. 24)
— Review of An Elegant Young Man 2013 selected work short story ; TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography ; Selective Memory : A Life in Film 2013 single work autobiography ; Passion Play : The Oberammergau Tales 2013 single work novel -
Sun-Kissed on Waves of Joy
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 January 2014; (p. 19)
— Review of TC : Tom Carroll 2013 single work biography ; That Summer at Boomerang 2014 single work biography