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Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos. Every day seems full of cruel and unusual...
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By turns tender, shocking and comic, Party Boy is a novel about a complex male culture – from the acclaimed author of What Sort of Man.
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Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos. Every day seems full of cruel and unusual obstacles, from temperamental arancini balls to a car breakdown at the worst possible time. Painkillers and booze can only do so much to protect him from the fallout of his adolescence –the bullying, the fear, the things that were done to him and the things he did.
Now his fiftieth birthday is approaching, and all the ghosts of his life are invited to the party. It feels like his last chance, though he isn’t sure for what.
Now his fiftieth birthday is approaching, and all the ghosts of his life are invited to the party. It feels like his last chance, though he isn’t sure for what.
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ISBN: 9781776923038
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 February 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Breton Dukes is the author of three acclaimed short story collections: What Sort of Man (2020), Empty Bones (2014) and Bird North (2011). He has worked in hospitals, language schools, gymnasiums, bars, kitchens, factories and government call centres, and has received the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary. He lives with his wife and three children in Dunedin.
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