Dominic Gordon grew up in the inner west of Melbourne, a lower middle class boy from a stable family. But from age 10 when he began smoking, he found opportunities for risk taking every day. Shoplifting, vandalism, graffiti-ing trains, getting into fights, stealing money and substance abuse. He was expelled from numerous schools and appeared in the youth court frequently.
His debut memoir Excitable Boy is an unsettling, un-sugarcoated collection of essays, an account of a life of risk taking, as he looks back and tries to understand for himself what was happening.
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