Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport

Author(s): Krien Anna

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'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. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to journalists that they were preparing to question two Collingwood players...And so, as police were confiscating bedsheets from a townhouse in Dorcas Street, South Melbourne, the trial by media began.' - Night Games. In the tradition of Helen Garner's The First Stone comes another closely observed, controversial book about sex, consent and power. At the centre of it is Anna Krien's account of the rape trial of a footballer. Krien offers a balanced and fearless look at the dark side of footy culture - the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon, Matty Johns, the Cronulla Sharks and more. What does a young footballer do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks, or games. Night games involving women. These games sometimes involve consensual sex, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes they fall into a grey area. Both a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of first-person narrative journalism, this is a breakthrough book from one of the young leading lights of Australian writing.

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Anna Krien is the author of Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests and Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals (Quarterly Essay 45).

General Fields

  • : 9781863956017
  • : Black Inc.
  • : Black Inc.
  • : 0.397
  • : April 2013
  • : 234mm X mm
  • : Australia
  • : October 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Krien Anna
  • : Paperback
  • : 513
  • : 700.00
  • : 272
  • : black & white illustrations