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 three-hundred-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 marvelously funny, Muck has been widely hailed as a
masterpiece. It is a heartrending memoir of family discord and an
exquisite story of a young artist in search of a self.
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