The Rules of Backyard Cricket - Couverture souple

Serong, Jock

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911231030 ISBN 13 : 9781911231035

Editeur : Text Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

*Nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original*

*Longlished for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger*



A lawless ride through the life of a famed sportsman.

A gripping literary examination of masculinity, celebrity, crime and sport.

From the day - lost now in the Kodachrome blur - when we take up backyard cricket, my brother and I are an independent republic of rage and obsession. Our rules, our records, our very own physics. Eye-to-eye and hand-to-hand combat. By the time we emerge into the world beyond the paling fences, it surprises us to learn that anyone considers this a team sport.

Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave.

His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up game. A kid with a pure talent that makes him a sporting star. A young man gorging himself on fame, seasoned with all the usual spices. A bloke who gets away with things, and just keeps getting. Until now.

In the boot, Darren works to free his hands. The chance that he will succeed is remote, and in any case he will still be incapacitated and outnumbered. But it seems unsporting to try.



The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a literary thriller in the tradition of Peter Temple's Truth (riverrun, 2010). With glorious writing harnessed to a gripping narrative, it observes celebrity, masculinity - humanity - with clear-eyed lyricism and exhilarating narrative drive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jock Serong is the author of Quota (Text, 2014, also available), winner of the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction, 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Text Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911231030
• ISBN 13: 9781911231035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1
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• Personne responsable: non disponible