- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Old Street Publishing (10 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905847785
- ISBN-13: 978-1905847785
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,445,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Sherborne goes deeper than the rest of us into the territory of impressionable immaturity... He makes the cruel truth poetic' CLIVE JAMES--'Mordantly true to life' JM COETZEE-- 'Muck is an instant classic' LITERARY REVIEW 'Muck- pitch perfect- bowls you over' BOOK REVIEW-- 'I read the first sentence and then pushed the day's work aside and sat down to read it all' HILARY MANTEL on HOI POLLOI --*
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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. 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.
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This is a really good read, very stylish and inventive language, the author paints a wonderful and painful picture of his dysfunctional parents who build themselves a terribly tasteless Tudor style ranch in the middle of the Australian outback, and then proceed to feel socially ostracised. Lord Muck of the title, their precocious son, presides over all and we see his ghastly parents through his eyes. There's a fantastic section in the middle about a horse breaker who's down on his luck and comes to the farm to break a young horse using his own homegrown methods, and runs up against the young lord Muck who tries to both sabotage and pull rank, class and age on the horse breaker. It's funny, terribly poignant, at times brutal and painful - a good read by a writer with a very individual style and voice. Top stuff! If you lend it out, get it back!
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