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  The Danger Game

 
The Danger Game
Author:    Kalinda Ashton
ISBN:    9781740668132
ISBN-10:    1740668138
Publisher:    Hardie Grant Books
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    260
Language:    English
RRP: $24.95
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Book Description:
Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy - the house fire their brother lit and burnt to death in, fourteen years ago. Alice teaches dirt-poor students at a state high school that the government wants to close, and she pursues an episodic, estranged relationship with a married man. Louise, a habitual liar and recovering heroin addict, has been playing 'the danger game' since she was a child, and she can't stop. But when Louise decides to unravel the truth about her twin brother's death, and seeks out the mother who abandoned her as a ten-year-old, everything changes. With preoccupations reminiscent of Elliot Perlman, The Danger Game is a work of literary realism, told through three voices in a pared-back style laced with black humour. It is at once an unsentimental account of deprivation and resistance, and a critique of the human cost of untrammelled economic rationalism.


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Category: Fiction - General
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Review by Andrea 
Like Tsiolkas' 'The Slap', this brilliantly rendered novel is about the tensions, resentments, kindnesses and struggles of ordinary people in Melbourne.
In The Danger Game two sisters try to come to terms with the mysterious death of their brother when they were children. The day of his death unfolds powerfully in haunting flashbacks told from multiple points of view. The fate of this destroyed family is heart-breaking, maddening and confronting. The sisters estranged mother is one of the most chilling and fascinating characters I've read of in absolutely ages.
I loved this novel and can't recommend it highly enough. Read it and let me know what you think (I'm dying to talk about it).

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