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A Fraction of the Whole

A Fraction of the Whole( )
Author: Toltz, Steve
ISBN:978-0-241-01529-2
Publication Date:Mar 2008
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $29.95
Book Description:

Meet the Deans.

'The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them.'

Heroes or criminals? Crackpots of visionaries? Relatives or enemies?

It's a simple family story...

From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of Thailand to a leaky boat in...
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Book Details
Pages:720
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Family Life / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.6 x 6.1 cm
Book Weight:1.06 Kilograms
Author Biography
Toltz, Steve (Author)


Steve Toltz was born in 1972 in Sydney. His first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, was released in 2008. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts. The narration of the novel alternates between Jasper Dean, a philosophical, idealistic boy, who grows up throughout the novel and his father, Martin Dean, a philosopher and shut-in described at the start of the novel as "the most hated man in all of Australia" The novel has repeatedly been compared favourably to John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. A Fraction of the Whole was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize and the 2008 Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, Quicksand, is expected to be published in 2015. He will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in 2015 in London. He will also be at the Sydney Writers Festival 2015.

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