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Anna Krien is an author who wrote Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport, which won the British Sports Book Award in the new Writers of the year category. (Bowker Author Biography)

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The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection (2011) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
The Best Australian Essays 2006 (2006) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
The Best Australian Stories 2010 (2010) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
The Best Australian Essays 2005 (2005) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
The Best Australian Essays 2011 (2011) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
The Best Australian Stories 2008 (2004) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
The Best Australian Stories 2014 (2014) — Collaboratore — 13 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1979
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
Australia
Luogo di residenza
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Attività lavorative
non-fiction author
essayist

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Krien explores the case of the so called ‘Saint Kilda School Girl’ (Kim Duthie) and in doing so examines some of the broader issues involving men, elite football and women. Also published in Best Australian Essays 2011, (Koval, ed.).
 
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Readingthegame | Jul 12, 2020 |
A ground breaking book which examines the 2012 rape trial of an AFL footballer. Neither the defendant, or the complainant in the trial, are named in the book. What is presented is a detailed and finely nuanced analysis of the trial itself, and the wider ethical, gender, and cultural issues at play. In the tradition of works like Helen Garner’s, The First Stone (1995), and Chloe Hooper’s, The Tall Man (2008).
 
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Readingthegame | 3 altre recensioni | Jul 11, 2020 |
I know, I know, I'm hard to please...
I want stimulating books that tackle important contemporary issues...but...
I just don't want them all in the one book.
There are three strands to this novel. This is the blurb
Iraqi aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Australia, decades later, Gerry is in fear of his tyrannical father, Toohey, who has returned from the Iraq War bearing the physical and psychological scars of conflict. Meanwhile, Robbie is dealing with her own father's dementia when the past enters the present.
These characters' worlds intertwine in a brilliant narrative of guilt and reckoning, trauma and survival. Crossing the frontiers of war, protest and reconciliation, Act of Grace is a meditation on inheritance- the damage that one generation passes on to the next, and the potential for transformation.
And these are the issues that bubble up:
family violence
Stolen Generation dislocation
Islamophobia
discrimination against cross-dressers
prostitution
early onset dementia
racism from both sides towards Indigenous Australians with European heritage
PTSD after military tours of Iraq
refugees with real histories of torture and trauma but fake identities
Aboriginal children with foetal alcohol syndrome
the climbing of Uluru debate
Mexicans trying to cross the US border
brutal US prisons
the Aboriginal flag on West Gate Bridge debate

To read the rest of my review and see links to opinions different to mine please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/10/30/act-of-grace-by-anna-krien/
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anzlitlovers | Oct 30, 2019 |
Much more interesting than I expected a book about Tasmania's logging debate to be! Insightful and engaging.
½
 
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Amzzz | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 8, 2017 |

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9
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Utenti
205
Popolarità
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Voto
3.8
Recensioni
10
ISBN
36

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