The Rules of Backyard Cricket
Author: Serong, Jock
ISBN: 9781925498707
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 17 Jul 2017
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliant literary thriller in the tradition of Peter Temple's Truth, from a rising star of Australian fiction.
It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game.
Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. No surprise that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety-one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps getting.
Until the day we meet him, middle aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave.
ISBN: 9781925498707
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 17 Jul 2017
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliant literary thriller in the tradition of Peter Temple's Truth, from a rising star of Australian fiction.
It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game.
Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. No surprise that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety-one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps getting.
Until the day we meet him, middle aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave.
