Book Launch: Robert Cox, Breakout!
The Hobart Bookshop is proud to be hosting the launch of Breakout! by Tasmanian author Robert Cox.
In his new work Robert is able to tell in full, for the first time, the tragic story of Pevay and Timmy, from their perilous boyhood during Tasmania’s Black War to their botched hanging in a crowded Melbourne street. As teenagers they’d been jailed for being black. They’d taken unwilling part in the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. Forcibly interned in a bleak offshore gulag, they’d watched helplessly as friends and family died of disease and despair.
Then they were exiled to Victoria where colonists victimised them. It was the last straw. They stole guns and seized their freedom.
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