Synopses & Reviews
"A stark, harrowing, yet deeply courageous work of immense power and magnitude."-
QuadrantHomeless and alone, a disturbed youth drifts between town and the Australian Outback, growing increasingly isolated and distrustful in a society lacking the means and seemingly the will to help him. He is coerced by strange voices and haunted by a history of family violence. This compelling coming-of-age novel tells Peter Kocan's own story, offering us an intimate portrait of the dark forces at work in the evolution of a loner. "No more authentic study of this type of loner exists,"wrote The Times,naming Fresh Fieldsbook of the year in 2005. "Taxi Driveris a melodrama by comparison."
About the Author
Peter Kocan published his first books of poetry in the mid-seventies while a resident in Morisset Hospital the Criminally Insane following a failed attempt to assassinate a federal politician. Fresh Fields is a fictionalized account of Kocan's youth. He lives in Brisbane, Australia.