The Rules of Backyard Cricket - Softcover

Jock Serong

 
9781925498707: The Rules of Backyard Cricket

Synopsis

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

*Longlished for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger*



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...

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About the Author

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

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ISBN 10:  1925355217 ISBN 13:  9781925355215
Publisher: Text Pub Co, 2017
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