The Shark Net: 1 Spoken Word MP3 CD, 510 Minutes by Robert Drewe (9781921415913)

Description - The Shark Net: 1 Spoken Word MP3 CD, 510 Minutes by Robert Drewe

Major ABC television series. Popular school text. Winner of the 2000 WA Premier's non-fiction book award. Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers - variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them down with cars - and an innocent Perth was changed forever. In the middle-class suburbs which were the killer's main stalking grounds, the mysterious murders created widespread anxiety and instant local myth. 'The murders and their aftermath have both intrigued me and weighed heavily on me for three decades. To try to make sense of this time and place, and of my own childhood and adolescence, I had, finally, to write about it.' The result is The Shark Net, a vibrant and haunting memoir that reaches beyond the dark recesses of murder and chaos to encompass their ordinary suburban backdrop. In Robert Drewe's hands, a whole time and region come to vivid life.
Extraordinarily moving, surprisingly humorous and beautifully observed, The Shark Net shows one of Australia's most acclaimed writers charting new and exciting territory. In this magnificent and haunting memoir of murder, sharks and rubber goods, Robert Drewe proves himself too subtle and too adventurous a writer to settle for 'the truth, plain and simple'. He creates instead a resurrection of his boyhood in Australia which is as ornamented, engaging and ambitious as any great novel.' - Jim Crace

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