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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Judas Boys
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'What happens when the future falls as dark as your past?

When all that you have seduced and betrayed, rises up to drown you.

'Pat Pinnock is about to find out.

'Pinnock is a Judas Boy — a private schoolboy gone to seed. He’s lost his job as a political staffer. He sleeps in the garage of his estranged wife. He has finally run out of friends and must face his accusers — both the living and the dead.

'Judas Boys is the eagerly-awaited new novel from Joel Deane: a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today’s political headlines. Deane brings the aftermath of professional catastrophe, personal betrayal, and public disgrace to life with a poet’s ear for the human voice fractured in extremis.' (Publication summary)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hunter Publishers , 2023 .
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      •  Published August 2023

      ISBN: 9780648848158

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Joel Deane in Conversation Mark Rubbo (interviewer), 2024 26988904 2024 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation with author, speechwriter and poet Joel Deane, on his eagerly-awaited new novel, Judas Boys.

'Deane’s protagonist (of sorts) Pinnock is, as the title suggests, a Judas Boy – a private schoolboy gone to seed. He's lost his job as a political staffer. He sleeps in the garage of his estranged wife. He has finally run out of friends and must face his accusers – both the living and the dead.

'This book is a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today's political headlines. Deane brings the aftermath of professional catastrophe, personal betrayal, and public disgrace to life with a poet's ear for the human voice fractured in extremis.' (Introduction)

Falling into a Dream : Joel Deane’s Visceral Novel Anders Villani , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 30)

— Review of Judas Boys Joel Deane , 2023 single work novel

'Early in Joel Deane’s third novel, the point of view shifts from the first to the third person as the narrator, Patrick ‘Pin’ Pinnock, reflects on a moment in boyhood, standing atop a diving board at night:

'He looks down and sees the white frame of the rectangular pool, but everything inside the white frame is black. The darkness within the frame is his past and future, he thinks, and the diving board is his present. To make the leap from one to the other, therefore, is an act of faith.' (Introduction)           

Joel Deane Judas Boys Nathan Smith , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16-22 September 2023;

— Review of Judas Boys Joel Deane , 2023 single work novel

'In Judas Boys, novelist and poet Joel Deane wrestles with the enduring impact of toxic masculinity and institutional abuse. For Patrick Pinnock, it all stems from his short time surviving an exclusive boys high school.' (Introduction)   

Joel Deane Judas Boys Nathan Smith , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16-22 September 2023;

— Review of Judas Boys Joel Deane , 2023 single work novel

'In Judas Boys, novelist and poet Joel Deane wrestles with the enduring impact of toxic masculinity and institutional abuse. For Patrick Pinnock, it all stems from his short time surviving an exclusive boys high school.' (Introduction)   

Falling into a Dream : Joel Deane’s Visceral Novel Anders Villani , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 30)

— Review of Judas Boys Joel Deane , 2023 single work novel

'Early in Joel Deane’s third novel, the point of view shifts from the first to the third person as the narrator, Patrick ‘Pin’ Pinnock, reflects on a moment in boyhood, standing atop a diving board at night:

'He looks down and sees the white frame of the rectangular pool, but everything inside the white frame is black. The darkness within the frame is his past and future, he thinks, and the diving board is his present. To make the leap from one to the other, therefore, is an act of faith.' (Introduction)           

y separately published work icon Joel Deane in Conversation Mark Rubbo (interviewer), 2024 26988904 2024 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation with author, speechwriter and poet Joel Deane, on his eagerly-awaited new novel, Judas Boys.

'Deane’s protagonist (of sorts) Pinnock is, as the title suggests, a Judas Boy – a private schoolboy gone to seed. He's lost his job as a political staffer. He sleeps in the garage of his estranged wife. He has finally run out of friends and must face his accusers – both the living and the dead.

'This book is a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today's political headlines. Deane brings the aftermath of professional catastrophe, personal betrayal, and public disgrace to life with a poet's ear for the human voice fractured in extremis.' (Introduction)

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