Night games
Subtitle: sex, power and sport
By: Anna Krien
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Collingwood, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781863956017
Subjects: Australian football players; Sexual behavior; Men; Moral and ethical aspects; Sports; Professional sports; Sex crimes; Athletes; Power (Social sciences)
Description: 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 the tradition of Helen Garner's The First Stone comes a closely observed, controversial book about sex, consent and power. In Night Games, Anna Krien follows the rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer. She also takes a balanced and fearless look at the dark side of footy culture - the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon, Matty Johns and the Cronulla Sharks. Both a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of first-person narrative journalism, this is a breakthrough book by one of the leading young lights of Australian writing.