These stylish autobiographical essays take the reader into backstreets rarely traversed in Australian literature – sex clubs, street fights and emergency rooms
any young men die or go to jail in Dominic Gordon’s debut essay collection. They do stupid things when they’re wasted, get caught tagging trains or shoplifting. “We loved trains and we loved stealing,” he writes. They graduate from petty crime to more serious offences, from recreational drug use to full-blown addiction. They don’t seem to spend much time with women. Gordon is right in the thick of it and you wonder, often, how he managed to survive and write this book.
There’s an essay set in the reading room of the State Library of Victoria, one of Gordon’s regular haunts – “I spend a lot of time reading with my heart and soul about criminals, conmen, and fugitives of life” – that captures his unique perspective. When a thief enters the library, he notices – and no one else does. “He’s been coming into the library a few times a week to do the rounds,” Gordon writes.
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