The glass kingdom / Chris Flynn.
Publication details: Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2014.Description: 235 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922147882
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.4.F89
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | FLY | Available | 057444 |
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Ben and his sidekick, Mikey, work the Target Ball stand in a ramshackle carnival travelling up the east coast. Ben is trying to put his time in the army behind him and make some money. Mikey - AKA Mekong Delta, Fremantle's answer to Fifty Cent - wants to work on his flow and impress girls. Their marks are the boozed-up blokes wandering sideshow alley in the hope of winning fluffy toys for their girlfriends. Easy pickings - so long as Mikey keeps his big mouth shut. Especially since his tendency to start fights jeopardises Ben's lucrative meth-dealing operation. Inventive, profane and hilarious, this is a breakneck tour of rural Australia's underbelly from the acclaimed author of A Tiger in Eden.