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What does a young
footballer do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks,
or games. Night games with women. Sometimes these involve consensual sex, but
sometimes they don’t, and sometimes they fall into a grey area.
In the tradition
of Helen Garner’s The First Stone
comes a closely observed, controversial book about sex, consent and power. In Night Games, Anna Krien follows the rape
trial of an Australian Rules footballer. She also takes a balanced and fearless
look at the dark side of footy culture – the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon,
Matty Johns and the Cronulla Sharks.
Both a courtroom
drama and a riveting work of narrative journalism, this is a breakthrough book
by one of the leading young lights of Australian writing.
Anna Krien is the
author of Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, Into the Woods: The
Battle for Tasmania's Forests and Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them:
On the Importance of Animals. Anna's work has been published in the
Monthly, the Age, the Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays,
The Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going
Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.
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