Amaze Your Friends
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| Author | Peter Doyle |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Random House, Melbourne |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print Paperback |
| Pages | 250 pp |
| ISBN | 0-09-183656-5 (first edition, paperback) |
| OCLC | 38833698 |
| Preceded by | Get Rich Quick |
| Followed by | The Devil's Jump |
Amaze Your Friends is a 1998 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Doyle.[1]
This is book 2 in the author's Billy Glasheen series of novels.[2]
Synopsis
[edit]Set in Sydney in the 1950s this novel follows Billy Glasheen as he attempts to raise ten thousand pounds to pay off a corrupt police officer. If he can't make that in six months he'll find himself six feet under.
Critical reception
[edit]Damo Gay, writing on the Australian Crime Fiction HQ website noted: "Amaze Your Friends is a dark hardboiled crime story that will take a man and subject him to all manner of adversity. It's set in Sydney as the 1950s are drawing to a close, following the attempts of a small-time hustler to come up with some money as quickly as possible. It's a wild and unpredictable ride through the low-life haunts of the city's drug-dens, dealing with corrupt cops while trying to maintain a string of dodgy mail-order scams...At times it's crude and at others it's graphic, but it's most definitely an entertaining read."[3]
Awards
[edit]- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 1999: winner[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle". Austlit. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ ""Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle"". Australian Crime Fiction HQ. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "1999 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
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