King Of Dirt

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pantera Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2025
Edition: First Edition

Description: 384 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A gritty and heartfelt gay coming-of-age story set in the world of FIFO workers and tradies in Western Australia, from the author of the bestselling Invisible Boys.Giacomo Brolo, aka Jack, is a mess. He works piecemeal construction gigs in remote WA, drinks himself to oblivion and is estranged from his family and friends. Hes consumed by a self-loathing all too common for closeted men who have grown up in a world of hate and shame.But then Jack returns to his regional hometown of Geraldton for a family wedding. He hasnt been back since he fled at the age of eighteen, and his past soon catches up with him.Turns out Jacks deeply conservative Italian family would prefer he remained in the closet. Then he finds out he may have conceived a son with his teenage girlfriend, and now Jack needs to convince her and her new husband that hes fit to be a father figure. And whatever happened to Xavier, the former schoolmate who Jack was in love with and whose rejection spurred him to leave Geraldton in the first placeIs Jack doomed to live a dead-end life “ or can he open himself up to the possibility of love, found family and connection

ISBN: 9781763516595