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A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:21 pm
by pixelboy
Absolute cracker.. read it now! The Well Read Redhead says so and so do it :)
The Father is Martin Dean.
He taught his son always to make up his mind, and then change it. An impossible, brilliant, restless man, he just wanted the world to listen to him – and the trouble started when the world did.

The Uncle is Terry Dean.
As a boy, Terry was the local sporting hero. As a man, he became Australia's favourite criminal, making up for injustice on the field with this own version of justice off it.

The Son is Jasper Dean.
Now that his father is dead, Jasper can try making some sense of his outrageous schemes to make the world a better place. Haunted by his own mysteriously missing mother and a strange recurring vision, Jasper has one abiding question: Is he doomed to become the lunatic who raised him, or a different kind of lunatic entirely?

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 the Pacific, Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole follows the Deans on their freewheeling, scathingly funny and finally deeply moving quest to leave their mark on the world.
http://www.penguin.com.au/afractionofthewhole/

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:36 pm
by norbs
Grabbed it today on your recommendation Pix. Looks like a belter of a book after 15 pages or so. :) Thanks mate.

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:14 pm
by w00dsy
i thought it was about Dean Martins son for a sec :doh: The one that died in the F4 Phantom

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:37 pm
by pixelboy
Awesome norbs, I think you in particular will love it..

Plenty of Australian country town nuances.. let me know how you go!

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:27 pm
by norbs
pixelboy wrote:Awesome norbs, I think you in particular will love it..

Plenty of Australian country town nuances.. let me know how you go!
140 pages in and loving it. :yes:

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:10 am
by norbs
Well that took longer than usual, although with the amount of cycling I am doing, I usually flake out after a page or 2.

Very good book. I think it possibly could have been shorter, but I still enjoyed it. Lots of interesting twists and turns.

4 stars out of 5 from me. :yes:

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:32 pm
by pixelboy
It dos meander about at times and possibly a tad overwritten but its fun init norbs..

crazy family!!

Re: A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:45 pm
by norbs
pixelboy wrote:It dos meander about at times and possibly a tad overwritten but its fun init norbs..

crazy family!!
Put it this way Pix, I have recommended it to about 8 other people. :) And thanks for the heads up, I really enjoyed it.