Jock Serong
Autor de The Rules of Backyard Cricket
Sobre El Autor
Jock Serong is the author of Quota, which won the Ned Kelly 2015 award in the category of Best First Novel. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- 30
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Darren Keefe has been beaten and shot. He lies in a car boot, hands cable-tied and mouth covered in gaffer, contemplating his (probable) imminent violent end and what has brought him to this point. He tells of his fierce rivalry with and terrible love for older brother Wally, played out in their makeshift cricket pitch in a working class backyard in Melbourne's west during the 70s and 80s.
The Keefe brothers are raised by their single mother, who is unbowed by her husband's desertion and determined that her boys will be professional sportsmen. While Wally becomes the kind of cricketer whose public persona is always measured and perfect, Darren can never seem to side with the better angels of his nature. His ne'er-do-well, larrikin, clown prince behaviour is an amalgam of the kinds of things Australian sporting fans have unfortunately come to know all too well in the last three decades. Despite his poor choices, Darren feels things deeply and when he loves it is with the intensity of a badly-behaved supernova.
The Keefe brothers' love-hate relationship, and the toll it takes on those around them, is beautifully set down here and is a must-read for lovers of cricket and literature alike.
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