description: "Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books  A "spiced and savory memoir" ( The New York Times ) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community.Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net  is set in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's middle class youth in the seaside suburbs of Perth, Australia—often described as the most isolated city in the world—takes a sinister turn when a social outcast (who turns out to be an employee of Drewe's father) embarks on a five-year murder spree. This unusual memoir brilliantly evokes the confluence of adolescent innocence and sexual awakening, while a killer who eventually murders eight people—including several of Drewe's friends—lurks in the shadows.
language: English
title: The Shark Net: Memories and Murder
titlecomplete: The Shark Net: Memories and Murder
genres: Australia, Memoir, Crime, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, True Crime, Drama, Read For School, Biography
ratings_count: 1597
publisher: Penguin Books