{"product_id":"craig-sherborne-muck-a-memoir-9781905847785","title":"Muck: A Memoir","description":"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.","brand":"Old Street Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723442512214,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/craig-sherborne-muck-a-memoir-9781905847785","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}