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Hoi Polloi (Paperback)
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Hoi Polloi (Paperback)
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Loot Price R348
Discovery Miles 3 480
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The award-winning sequel to the acclaimed memoir Hoi Polloi. "The
dynasty has started with my father as the founding father and me
his only son, the founding son. He looks forward to the day when he
can watch his grandchildren out there in the clover-covered
paddocks frolicking among the cowpats. Playing with a pony, getting
stung by bees. The most wholesome activities in the world." 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 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 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. Clear-sighted, lyrical, and
marvellously funny, Muck is a heart-rending memoir of family
discord and an exquisite story of a young artist in search of a
self.
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