Brandon Jack Brandon Jack i(21842745 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Plants Brandon Jack , 2024 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5 February 2024;
1 Right, Darling Brandon Jack , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 2-8 December 2023;
1 Can I Borrow a Feeling Brandon Jack , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 May 2023;
1 Repeat Offender Brandon Jack , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 November 2022;
1 I Love Ya, Mate Brandon Jack , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 May - 3 June 2022;
1 Boys Who Dance Brandon Jack , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 27 November - 3 December 2021;
1 y separately published work icon 28 : A Memoir of Football, Addiction, Art, Masculinity and Love Brandon Jack , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 21842821 2021 single work autobiography

'A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man.

'How does one come to be?

'Continually told he was born with footballing blood, Brandon Jack has spent his life uncertain of the relationship he holds with the games he's played.

'Now a writer and musician, he sits in his apartment and reflects upon the years spent pursuing what felt like an inevitability - the footballing life.

'This is a unique and darkly poetic fly-on-the-wall account of a world which is usually shown in bright lights. Filled with relentlessly driven diary entries, vivid details of life at the fringe, and recounts of binge drinking into oblivion as an escape during his playing days at the Sydney Swans, 28 is a portrayal of the sporting psyche in a way that has never been done before.

'But the true beauty of this book lies in the space between football.

'Laid bare on these pages, a cuttingly honest deep-dive into sport, addiction, art, sexuality, masculinity, love, family and identity.' (Publication summary)

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