6/30/2023 0 Comments Night Games by Anna Krien![]() ![]() Krien’s interrogation of her own relationship to the events she is recording, and the validity of her role as reporter and commentator, is a part of this book’s achievement in opening up questions and judgements about the case rather than closing them down. Anna Krien follows the arguments and assumptions that are made as the trial unfolds, her discussion spreading out in circles of argument and questioning to examine the wider contexts of this story. The 2014 Stella Prize judges said of Night Games:įollowing in the footsteps of Truman Capote, Janet Malcolm and, closer to home, Helen Garner, Anna Krien explores the facts, the claims and the ramifications surrounding a court case in which a Melbourne footballer was tried for the rape of a young woman. It won the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. On the seventh day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me…Īnna Krien’s Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport!īoth a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of first-person narrative journalism, Anna Krien’s Night Games is a breakthrough book by one of the leading young lights of Australian writing. ![]()
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