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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Tyro
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'In 1953 in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Andrew is eager to begin his apprenticeship as a ship's engineer at the Dalrossan Dockyard but soon realizes that his new workplace is full of unwritten rules and dangerous undercurrents and that he cannot tell his friends from his enemies.' University of Queensland Library record.

Notes

  • Epigraph: Tyro: A beginner or learner in anything; one who has mastered the rudiments only of any branch of knowledge. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

    The management of tyroes of eighteen is difficult. William Cowper 1731-1800.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1999 .
      Extent: 252, [1]p.p.
      ISBN: 0141304561

Works about this Work

(Un)Doing Gender : Ways of Being in an Age of Uncertainty Kerry Mallan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: What Do We Tell the Children? : Critical Essays on Children's Literature 2012; (p. 12-25)
Kerry Mallan examines the configurations of gender and sexuality in recent children's fiction in light of the regulatory pressures of heteronormativity and considers the potential for expanding and enriching concepts of masculinity and femininity for young readers [...] Mallan considers the role and accountability of the publishing and culture industries in this arena of socialization and emphasizes the importance of providing counter narratives to hegemonic systems of being gendered and ways of knowing gender." (Bhroin & Kennon, 2012, p.3)
Men/Boys Behaving Differently: Contemporary Representations of Masculinity in Children's Literature Kerry Mallan , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: English In Australia , November no. 132 2001; (p. 57-64)
'Crisis' has been the password of recent writings about boys, masculinity and manhood from popular journalism to academic press. In all of these often disparate accounts there is the attempt on the part of the writers to find an anchorage in the storm, to utter a temporary 'truth' on the current state of affairs. In a similar way, the cause for the so-called 'crisis in masculinity' is just as diverse.With this brief outline of the discourse of 'crisis in masculinity' in mind, this paper will 2 consider what contemporary writing for young people can offer in terms of the current issues impacting on masculinity. In particular, specific questions will emerge as part of the discussion: How are writers for young people contributing to critiques of masculinity (and gender generally) through strategies of parody, self-reflexivity, and subversion? In reading these fictional accounts, does a more serious account of current anxieties lie beneath their playful surfaces? How might students benefit from an engagement with these and other texts in terms of their developing understandings of gender in general and masculine subjectivities in particular?
Untitled Graeme Smith , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 27)

— Review of Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 44 no. 1 2000; (p. 25)

— Review of Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
Skate Lingo Needs Straight Talking Rachael Antony , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 February 2000; (p. 10)

— Review of Stony Heart Country David Metzenthen , 1999 single work novel ; No Other Way Michael Dugan , 1999 single work novel ; Graffiti on the Fence Elaine Forrestal , 1999 single work novel ; Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 44 no. 1 2000; (p. 25)

— Review of Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
Untitled Kerry Neary , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 14 no. 5 1999; (p. 39)

— Review of Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
Untitled Graeme Smith , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 27)

— Review of Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
Skate Lingo Needs Straight Talking Rachael Antony , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 February 2000; (p. 10)

— Review of Stony Heart Country David Metzenthen , 1999 single work novel ; No Other Way Michael Dugan , 1999 single work novel ; Graffiti on the Fence Elaine Forrestal , 1999 single work novel ; Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel
If You Can't Beat 'EM Jenny Pausacker , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 September 1999; (p. 14)

— Review of More than a Game Peter McFarlane , 1999 single work novel ; Tyro David McRobbie , 1999 single work novel ; 48 Shades of Brown Nick Earls , 1999 single work novel ; Borrowed Light Anna Fienberg , 1999 single work novel
Men/Boys Behaving Differently: Contemporary Representations of Masculinity in Children's Literature Kerry Mallan , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: English In Australia , November no. 132 2001; (p. 57-64)
'Crisis' has been the password of recent writings about boys, masculinity and manhood from popular journalism to academic press. In all of these often disparate accounts there is the attempt on the part of the writers to find an anchorage in the storm, to utter a temporary 'truth' on the current state of affairs. In a similar way, the cause for the so-called 'crisis in masculinity' is just as diverse.With this brief outline of the discourse of 'crisis in masculinity' in mind, this paper will 2 consider what contemporary writing for young people can offer in terms of the current issues impacting on masculinity. In particular, specific questions will emerge as part of the discussion: How are writers for young people contributing to critiques of masculinity (and gender generally) through strategies of parody, self-reflexivity, and subversion? In reading these fictional accounts, does a more serious account of current anxieties lie beneath their playful surfaces? How might students benefit from an engagement with these and other texts in terms of their developing understandings of gender in general and masculine subjectivities in particular?
(Un)Doing Gender : Ways of Being in an Age of Uncertainty Kerry Mallan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: What Do We Tell the Children? : Critical Essays on Children's Literature 2012; (p. 12-25)
Kerry Mallan examines the configurations of gender and sexuality in recent children's fiction in light of the regulatory pressures of heteronormativity and considers the potential for expanding and enriching concepts of masculinity and femininity for young readers [...] Mallan considers the role and accountability of the publishing and culture industries in this arena of socialization and emphasizes the importance of providing counter narratives to hegemonic systems of being gendered and ways of knowing gender." (Bhroin & Kennon, 2012, p.3)
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