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Night Games
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport | Anna Krien
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The work of a compassionate and expansive intelligence.The Sydney Morning Herald The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface ... And so, as police were confiscating bedsheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began. 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, sometimes not, and often the lines are blurred. 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. Krien has produced a book of note which has justly earned comparisons with Helen Garners The First Stone.The Australian Anna Krien is the author of Night Games, Into the Woods and Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them. Her 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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AntoinetteBuchanan
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More waiting at the Genius Bar and sneaking in some reading as well as knitting #placesyoucanread #placesyoucanknit #knitting #reading #waitingroomknitting #operationsockdrawer #bookstagram

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arlenefinnigan
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Me whenever #BlurredLines comes on: OK WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT RAPE CULTURE #HeatOfJuly @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

TrishB 👍🏻 6y
Weaponxgirl Yes! 6y
Cinfhen YUP!! Same thought for today‘s prompt 6y
Cathythoughts That‘s exactly it ! Well done. 👍🏻 6y
BarbaraBB So right 👍😘 6y
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arlenefinnigan
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arlenefinnigan
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#TooManyCreeps #FierceFeb
I'm not sure 'creep' is really a strong enough word....
@batsy @Cinfhen

batsy Reading the blurb, I agree with you! I want to read this but also feel 😡 just thinking about it. 7y
CarolynM Good choice! 7y
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Starting Night Games for the #truecrime category of #aussiesrule2018. With lunch: no knead bread with Tipsy Princess jam (strawberries, rhubarb, coriander seed, lemon juice, gin), tomatoes, apricots. #booksandfood

tif This sounds like a good/difficult book. Stacking it for when I'm feeling strong enough to read it. 7y
readinginthedark That jam sounds amazing! 7y
Sue Your meal and the book both sound amazing! 7y
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