Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda (Allen and Unwin, 2013)

[...]Danny's drive and talent win him a swimming scholarship at a private school known to us only as 'Cunt's College' where he has to find his way among the spoilt sons of the rich and privileged. The boy Danny is so terrifyingly at the mercy of his own driving ambition and the expectations of his family and his snarling coach, so coldly single-minded in his repudiation of everything which might impede him - his swimming rivals, any sexual release and its resulting enervation, the slightest nick in his perfect skin - that he lives on a knife-edge of violence, hatred and shame, and the sense of impending catastrophe is almost overwhelming. The tone of much criticism of this author has been suggestive of a raw, explosive, untamed talent, a rough diamond.