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Muck - 9780393337907

Un libro in lingua di Craig Sherborne edito da W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010

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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. Craig Sherborne evokes his family's slide into madness through a series of unforgettable, hilarious portraits: of "Feet," his onceglamorous mother, now addled with snobbery, paranoia and mental illness; of "The Duke," his uncomprehending, sporadically violent father; and of himself, the "Lord Muck" of the title, at once helpless victim and ruthless agent of their undoing, who in the end must decide whether he can save his family.

"Most of us who attempt memoir tend to see ourselves as the safe center at the heart of the madness of family life, but I feel Craig Sherborne is more honest somehow, in acknowledging that when the ship of sanity goes down, the author goes down with it. It's gruesomely honest and very, very funny." -Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

"Sherborne goes deeper than the rest of us into the territory of impressionable immaturity He makes the cruel truth poetic." -Clive James, author of Cultural Amnesia

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