Me and Rory Macbeath
Hachette Australia, $29.99 pb, 371 pp, 9780733630309
Fiction
Triptych
by John Bryson •
In Richard Beasley’s third novel, a friendship between three boys ends violently, and one of them is tragically implicated. The lives of the young teenagers – Jake, Robbie, and Rory – are filled out with street football, driveway cricket, billycarts, fishing trips, slingshot target practice, and the comedy of flatulence. Their world is Rose Avenue during the Adelaide summer of 1977.
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