When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, too, this is a truthful rendering of small town prejudice and racist attitudes. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man's only escape. Neither pig shoots, bust-ups at the Two Dogs, bare-knuckle sessions in the shed or even a police siege can slow the countdown on this human time bomb.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
ISBN-10
0702232491
ISBN-13
9780702232497
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96473088
Product Key Features
Author
Cleven Vivienne
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Genre
General & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Weight
190g
Height
197mm
Width
132mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
ST Lucia
Spine
17mm
First Published
2001
Prizes
Short-Listed for Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award 2002.