The Rules Of Backyard Cricket
$22.75
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2017
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925498707 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1925498700 |
| Author: | Jock Serong |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 198mm x 130mm |
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Critics Review
‘Funny, sad and oddly touching…Beautifully written and acutely observed, The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a noir tour de force…Original Australian crime fiction of the first order.
‘Blow me down if I didn’t hang on every word.’ – Clare Wright * Best Books of 2016, Australian *
‘Funny, sad and oddly touching…Beautifully written and acutely observed, The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a noir tour de force…Original Australian crime fiction of the first order.
– Sue Turnbull * Sydney Morning Herald *‘The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong, while classified as ‘crime’, is a compelling literary novel dissecting toxic sporting culture and its fallout.’ – Paddy O’Reilly * Australian Book Review, 2016 Books of the Year *
‘Suffice it to say the back cover blurb that draws a parallel between The Rules of Backyard Cricket and Peter Temple’s best work is no exaggeration. Serong pulls off what Iconsider an Australian crime writer’s most sought-after quinella (touse a metaphor from another sport): a literary crime novel thatqualifies as genuine Australian noir.’
– Angela Savage
‘Serong writes pithy, pin-sharp dialogue…The book is expertlyplotted, and its noirish climax with its dark drama and its finaltwists, is devastating. Get out and buy this book; it is the best newnovel I’ve read this year.’
* Crime Time *‘The Rules of Backyard Cricket hits all other cricket booksI’ve read to date for six. This tale is not just about cricket, it’sabout the good, the bad and the ugly and a timely story, too, withsporting integrity often in question.’
* Weekly Times *‘Serong is an elegant writer who can move effortlessly from laughout-loud funny to elegiac to downright touching…Those of us who playedback garden cricket and remember how seriously it was taken by allconcerned will lap up every single run and wicket in this book.’
‘The writing is sharp and the flawed characters compelling…Serong bowls with a wry eye.’
* Otago Daily Times *‘Jock Serong’s gripping narrative is a compassionate exploration ofmasculinity and humanity as he chillingly questions whether we trulyknow those who are closest to us.’ * Good Reading *
‘One of the great novels written about sport…Delicious. It’s the top read of the summer.’ * Stuff.co.nz *
‘My favourite reading experience of the year (and I don’t even like cricket).’ * Heather Taylor Johnson, Sydney Morning Herald’s Year in Reading *
About The Author
Jock Serong
Jock Serong’s novels have received the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction, the Colin Roderick Award and the inaugural Staunch Prize (UK). He lives with his family on Victoria’s far west coast.
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