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1985

A Novel

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1985

By: Dominic Hoey
Narrated by: Dominic Hoey
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 It's 1985 and Obi's on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. His dad's delusional, his mum's real sick, the Rainbow Warrior just exploded, and it's time for Obi to grow up and get out of the spacies parlour.

When he and his best mate Al discover a map leading to unknown riches, Obi wonders if this windfall could be the thing that turns his family's fortunes around. Instead, he's thrown into an adventure where the stakes are a lot higher than the games he loves.

An electric novel about life in a multi-cultural, counter-cultural part of Auckland pre-gentrification. 1985 is an adventure story with a local flavour, a coming-of-age story for the underdogs, the disenfranchised and the dreamers.

'This is writing of raw and shining brilliance' NZ Herald on Poor People With Money Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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As an eighties child this was nostalgic in many ways, from the spacie games to Friday night fish and chips.

Hoey’s poetic reading of his second novel is what draws you in to Crummer Rd in 1985. Each quickfire chapter a stanza of Obi’s struggles and the goings-on around him.

I hope that one day I see this in movie form, where Hoey’s characters and humour are allowed to shine as they do with his reading of them. An absolute stand out.

Poetic in all senses of the word

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