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'Brandon Jack has talent and daring in abundance'  -- <B>Christos Tsiolkas</B> 'Brandon Jack is a force for good'  -- <B>Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the <I>Shameless</I> podcast</B>  'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing'  -- <B>Malcolm Knox</B> ‘A yearning heart and mind propels Brandon’s writing. I’m hugely expectant for what is next.’  -- <B>Tim Rogers</B>

‘The footballer’s language knocked me around with its fantastical crudity and wildness; yet under its foul-mouthed, laughing bravado lie deep wounds, a humble and endearing loneliness that moved me.’ -- <B>Helen Garner, author of <I>The Season</I></B> ‘I’ll probably never look at Aussie Rules in quite the same way. While redefining the Australian literary boundaries of bacchanalia, in Pissants Brandon Jack – startlingly, shockingly and often hilariously – turns the footy sausage inside-out to expose the blood, guts, desperation and human frailty at its core. It ain’t pretty. But it sure is a powerfully evocative, elegant, and very daring novel.’ -- <B>Paul Daley, <I>Guardian</I> writer and author of <I>Jesustown</I></B> 'Brandon Jack has talent and daring in abundance'  -- <B>Christos Tsiolkas</B> 'Brandon Jack is a force for good'  -- <B>Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the <I>Shameless</I> podcast</B>  'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing'  -- <B>Malcolm Knox</B> ‘A yearning heart and mind propels Brandon’s writing. I’m hugely expectant for what is next.’  -- <B>Tim Rogers</B> ‘I’ll probably never look at Aussie Rules in quite the same way. While redefining the Australian literary boundaries of bacchanalia, in Pissants Brandon Jack – startlingly, shockingly and often hilariously – turns the footy sausage inside-out to expose the blood, guts, desperation and human frailty at its core. It ain’t pretty. But it sure is a powerfully evocative, elegant, and very daring novel.’ -- <B>Paul Daley, <I>Guardian</I> writer and author of <I>Jesustown</I></B>

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Brandon Jack played for the Sydney Swans for five years. He is the author of the acclaimed 28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love.

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