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"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" ( The New York Times ) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community.Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's middle class youth in the seaside suburbs of Perth, Australia—often described as the most isolated city in the world—takes a sinister turn when a social outcast (who turns out to be an employee of Drewe's father) embarks on a five-year murder spree. This unusual memoir brilliantly evokes the confluence of adolescent innocence and sexual awakening, while a killer who eventually murders eight people—including several of Drewe's friends—lurks in the shadows.
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The Shark Net, Robert Drewe
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- The Shark Net
- Subtitle
- Memories and Murder
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Drewe
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0141001968
- ISBN13
- 9780141001968
- Series
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- "Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" ( The New York Times ) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community.Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's middle class youth in the seaside suburbs of Perth, Australia—often described as the most isolated city in the world—takes a sinister turn when a social outcast (who turns out to be an employee of Drewe's father) embarks on a five-year murder spree. This unusual memoir brilliantly evokes the confluence of adolescent innocence and sexual awakening, while a killer who eventually murders eight people—including several of Drewe's friends—lurks in the shadows.