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The Rules of Backyard Cricket

✍ Scribed by Jock Serong

Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year: 2016;2017
Tongue: English
Weight: 186 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1925498700

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a novel of suspense in the tradition of Peter Temple’s Truth. With glorious writing harnessed to a gripping narrative, it observes celebrity, masculinity—humanity—with clear-eyed lyricism and exhilarating narrative drive.

Jock Serong lives and works on the far southwest coast of Victoria....

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