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Softcover. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Inscribed and signed by the author to John Coetzee on half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 270 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Tiny amount of foxing and a crease in the cover. Feels unread. Meet Jazz and Roxy and their mates, kids living on the edge, in a gritty YA novel by the author of the New Zealand Post Award-winning Thunder Road. In K Road we're introduced to a scattering of marginalised, demi-underworld characters whose lives connect and collide in a gripping narrative. K Road is peopled by transients, surfies, gang members, street kids, P-heads, kids on the run: an ever-expanding,jostling urban tribe. Dawe's prose is spare, gritty and gutsy with flashes of poetry and humour. We gain an acute sense of the pressures, fears, betrayals and loyalties inherent in living on the edge of the law, and of the tenuous grip each character has on their own safety and integrity. They're all there on K Road: Flash, Sonny, Geronimo, Vercoe, Wilson, Jazz, Roxy. But it's Jazz and Roxy, the 14 and 19-year-ld team on the run, who try to climb out of their savagely cruel and subterranean existence. Their survival ticket is Jazz's extraordinary musical talent; their love story heart-breaking. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 270 pages. inside cover and page edge foxed, text in good conditionMeet Jazz and Roxy and their mates, kids living on the edge, in a gritty YA n ovel by the author of the New Zealand Post Award-winning Thunder Road. In K Road we're introduced to a scattering of marginalised, demi-underworld characters wh ose lives connect and collide in a gripping narrative. K Road is peopled by tran sients, surfies, gang members, street kids, P-heads, kids on the run: an ever-ex panding,jostling urban tribe. Dawe's prose is spare, gritty and gutsy with flash es of poetry and humour. We gain an acute sense of the pressures, fears, betraya ls and loyalties inherent in living on the edge of the law, and of the tenuous g rip each character has on their own safety and integrity. They're all there on K Road: Flash, Sonny, Geronimo, Vercoe, Wilson, Jazz, Roxy. But it's Jazz and Rox y, the 14 and 19-year-ld team on the run, who try to climb out of their savagely cruel and subterranean existence. Their survival ticket is Jazz's extraordinary musical talent; their love story heart-breaking.…