Pissants

‘The footballer’s language knocked me around with its fantastical crudity and wildness; yet under its foul-mouthed, laughing bravado lie deep wounds, a humble and endearing loneliness that moved me.’ – Helen Garner, author of The Season‘I’ll probably never look at Aussie Rules in quite the same way. While redefining the Australian literary boundaries of bacchanalia, in Pissants Brandon Jack – startlingly, shockingly and often hilariously – turns the footy sausage inside-out to expose the blood, guts, desperation and human frailty at its core. It ain’t pretty. But it sure is a powerfully evocative, elegant, and very daring novel.’ – Paul Daley, Guardian writer and author of Jesustown‘Brandon Jack has talent and daring in abundance’  – Christos Tsiolkas‘Brandon Jack is a force for good’  – Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the Shameless podcast ’Like Andre Agassi’s Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing’  – Malcolm Knox‘A yearning heart and mind propels Brandon’s writing. I’m hugely expectant for what is next.’  – Tim Rogers

Brandon Jack played for the Sydney Swans for five years. He is the author of the acclaimed 28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love.