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Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he understands that his amazing capacity in the swimming pool gets the potential to convert his life, silence the rich young boys at the private university to which he has triumphed in a sports scholarship, and take him much beyond his area, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has available, has been in quest for this dream. But what happens when the expertise which makes you special fails you? When the goal that you've been pursuing for so long as you can remember leads to humiliation and reduction? Twenty years later, Dan is within Scotland, terrified to see his partner about his former, afraid that uncovering what he did can make him unlovable. When he is called upon to come back home to his family, the moment of assault in the wake of his defeat that modified his life permanently comes home to him in terrifying detail, and he battles to assume that he'll be able to make amends. Haunted by shame, Dan relives the intervening years he put in in prison, where the optimism of his child years was completely international. Sensitive, savage, and blazingly amazing, Barracuda is a book about dreams and disillusionment, camaraderie and family, class, identity, and the expense of success. As Daniel loses everything, he learns what this means to be always a good person - and what it takes to be one.
