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The
2003 Award
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Stonedogs by Craig Marriner
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Vintage New Zealand ISBN 1869414764 |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| In
between drug deals and binge-drinking, reckless driving and street fights,
the delinquents of the Brotherhood wage the holiest of wars. Yes, they will
derail the Juggernaut before it can suicide…or have a ball trying at
least. But when one of them falls prey to Roto-Vegas gang members, the cultural
terrorists mobilise in earnest. Revenge takes them on a road-trip - a coming of age from hell. It is a journey to the corners of a collective psyche peopled by nightmares as real as the headlines of today, a New Zealand the tourists and executives had better pray they never stumble upon. Alone and gut-shot, the Juggernaut closing in, the Brotherhood will rally for an audacious final stand, a last ditch fight for their minds and their lives …. and perhaps for the future of us all. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Craig Marriner was born in New Zealand in 1974. He was raised and schooled in Rotorua. In the days since he has mined gold in the Aussie outback, worked security at English soccer stadiums, wintered on an angry Ruapehu, MCed at an Amsterdam comedy club, haggled in the markets of Istanbul, and slept in more train stations than he cares to remember. Stonedogs, his first novel, won the Deutz Medal 2002 in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. |
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