Wild things / Brigid Delaney.
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TextPublisher: Sydney South, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 355 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780732296872; 9781743099193Subject(s): Bullying in schools -- Fiction | College students -- Fiction | Secrecy -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: A controversial novel of power, prestige and pack mentality exposes the dark underbelly of college life at a prominent university St Anton's university college is a cradle for privileged young men and women. With its Elysian lush green lawns and buildings of golden sandstone, it seems like a place where nothing bad could ever happen. One weekend, members of the college cricket team go to the mountains for a wild weekend away. Things spiral rapidly out of control, and a young Malaysian student they dragged along with them as part of a cruel prank goes missing. When the boy is found by some bushwalkers on a rock ledge, barely clinging to life, most people think it's because of a fall, but the St Anton's men know better. The stress of keeping their collective secret becomes harder and harder to bear, and even the heavy wrought-iron fences of the college can't keep out reality.
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A controversial novel of power, prestige and pack mentality exposes the dark underbelly of college life at a prominent university St Anton's university college is a cradle for privileged young men and women. With its Elysian lush green lawns and buildings of golden sandstone, it seems like a place where nothing bad could ever happen. One weekend, members of the college cricket team go to the mountains for a wild weekend away. Things spiral rapidly out of control, and a young Malaysian student they dragged along with them as part of a cruel prank goes missing. When the boy is found by some bushwalkers on a rock ledge, barely clinging to life, most people think it's because of a fall, but the St Anton's men know better. The stress of keeping their collective secret becomes harder and harder to bear, and even the heavy wrought-iron fences of the college can't keep out reality.
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