Night Games : A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport, Ausgezeichnet: William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2014, Ausgezeichnet: British Sports Book Awards: New Writer of the Year 2015

ISBN-13: 9780224100038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str.

Anna Krien

Opis

Sex, celebrity, and power come together in a critically lauded, true-life courtroom drama centering on a rape case in the world of top-level sport.
*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*
'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 players... And so, as police were confiscating bed sheets 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, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes they fall into a grey area.
In "Night Games," Anna Krien follows the trial of a young footballer. Fearlessly and without prejudice, she shines a light into the darkest recesses of sports culture."

Recenzje

This is powerful, important writing, and Krien shows her workings throughout Tim Lewis Observer

O autorze

Born in Australia in 1979, Anna Krien is an investigative reporter and prizewinning author of Into the Woods and Night Games, She is only the second woman to have won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, which she won for Night Games, which also won the British Sports Book Awards New Writer of the Year Award in 2015.