Bitin' Back. First Nations Classics

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 223 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Melissa Lucashenko, Bitin' Back is a rollicking comic novel that nimbly blends the realities of small town prejudice and racial intolerance. 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 but 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.

ISBN: 9780702268519