One Night Out Stealing

Tandem Press, 1992. Fading to spine, minor foxing to page edges, otherwise good secondhand condition.

The second gripping, powerful novel by the author of Once Were Warriors.

Boys? homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again ? and again. That?s been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies . . .

Reviewers found it compulsive and unforgettable, one saying: 'Brutal, foul-mouthed, violent, despairing and real . . . it can't be ignored'.

In this novel Alan Duff confirms his skills as a gripping story-teller and a masterful creator of characters and situations. As one reviewer noted, it is 'original and important'.