Bitin' Back

Vivienne Cleven

Univ. of Queensland Press, 2001 - Fiction - 194 pages

When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, too, this is a truthful rendering of small town prejudice and racist attitudes. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man's only escape. Neither pig shoots, bust-ups at the Two Dogs, bare-knuckle sessions in the shed or even a police siege can slow the countdown on this human time bomb.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 30
• Section 4: 42
• Section 5: 53
• Section 6: 65
• Section 7: 82
• Section 8: 90
• Section 9: 101
• Section 10: 114
• Section 11: 125
• Section 12: 135
• Section 13: 144
• Section 14: 154
• Section 15: 162
• Section 16: 171
• Section 17: 190

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bitin' Back; UQP fiction
• Author: Vivienne Cleven
• Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0702232491, 9780702232497
• Length: 194 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General