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Muck: A Memoir

By Craig Sherborne

Muck: A Memoir

By Craig Sherborne

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With their only son on the brink of adolescence, the nouveaux-riches Sherbornes move away from the city to start a new, gentrified existence on a 300-acre farm- or 'estate'- in Taonga, New Zealand. But life on the farm is anything but wholesome. Sherborne evokes his family's slide into madness and misery through a series of unforgettable, hilarious portraits: of 'Feet', his once glamorous mother, now addled with snobbery, paranoia and mental illness; of 'The Duke', his weakly uncomprehending, sporadically violent father; and of himself, the 'Lord Muck' of the title, at once helpless victim and ruthless agent of their undoing. Clear-sighted, lyrical and marvellously funny, Muck has been widely hailed as a masterpiece. It is a heart rending study of family discord, and an exquisite, profound portrait of a young artist in search of a self.
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Number of Pages:
213
Release Date:
2009-02-10
Publication Date:
2009-02-10
Publisher:
Old Street Publishing
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1905847785
Weight:
380 g
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