Find Muck: A Memoir Curated By Craig Sherborne File

awardwinning 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 clovercovered 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 nouveauxriches Sherbornes move away from the city to start a new, gentrified existence on aacre farm or “estate” in Taonga, New Zealand.
But life on the farm is anything but wholesome, Sherborne evokes his familys 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.


Clearsighted, lyrical, and marvellously funny, Muck is a heartrending memoir of family discord and an exquisite story of a young artist in search of a self.
To put it shortly: I hate Catcher in the Rye, This reminded me of it and I was not surprised to see it referenced in the book.
This was only slightly better, I have decided my life is too short to waste time on reading books I really dont like just to finish them.
So sadly this is a No from me, Im done after a third of the way through, This humorous, selfdeprecating memoir of an Australian boy, defines social insanity as a new dimension of family dysfunctionality.

Smilingly wondering if he's ever found a sense of normalcy in his adult life, whatever that normal may be! Choppy.
Written in casual New Zealand conversational dialect, Very hard to follow . A status driven family riddled with pretension, and a New Zealand rural adolescent memoir with shades of Catcher in the Rye.
Clever, real and, I thought, deeply sad, That is a personal reaction to the story it tells however, not the aim of the author I felt the same about Catcher in the Rye.
It is an extremely well written and brave memoir, I gave this two because it did at least keep me reading, I kept waiting for some redeeming factor to be presented, It never arrived. As a matter of fact, the ending lowered him even further down the rung of my disrespect than the entirety of the memoir.


The only real compelling "character" in this memoir is his mom, referred to as "Feet".
We get tantalizing glimpses into her irrationality and narcissism, however Sherborne's own narcissism far less interesting takes front seat as should be the case with such a personality.


He portrays himself as a young man who highly overestimated his value and skills, yet never seems to show any character development or that he ever learned anything by the way of his mistakes in estimation and action.
He comes off as a whiny, overprivileged get who should have had the tar knocked out of him by his father.


I wouldn't recommend purchasing this, but if you find it lying on the back of the toilet seat next time you make a visit you might give a few pages a flip.
Craig Sherborne, a Melbourne based poet and playwright, was educated at Scots College in Sydney before

attending drama school in London.
He worked as a journalist for Melbourne based newspapers, was a senior writer with the Melbourne Sun, and is published in literary journals and anthologies.
Sherbornes play, The Ones Out of Town, won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award in.
His radio play, Table Leg, won the Ian Reed Foundation Fellowship for new writing for radio in.
The ABC commissioned work from him including The Pike Harvest, His verse drama, Look at Everything Twice for Me, was published by Currency Press, his first volume of poetry, Bullion, by Penguin in, and his second, Necessary Evil, by Black Inc.
in Craig Sherborne, a Melbourne based poet and playwright, was educated at Scots College in Sydney before attending drama school in London.
He worked as a journalist for Melbourne based newspapers, was a senior writer with the Melbourne Sun, and is published in literary journals and anthologies.
Sherborne's play, 'The Ones Out of Town', won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award in.
His radio play, 'Table Leg', won the Ian Reed Foundation Fellowship for new writing for radio in.
The ABC commissioned work from him including 'The Pike Harvest', His verse drama, Look at Everything Twice for Me, was published by Currency Press, his first volume of poetry, Bullion, by Penguin in, and his second, Necessary Evil, by Black Inc.
in. Craig Sherborne's memoir Hoi Polloi was published init was shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers and Victorian Premiers Literary Awards.
. Its sequel, Muck, was published inand won the Queensland Literary Award for Non Fiction in.
Craigs first novel, The Amateur Science of Love, won the Melbourne Prize for Literatures Best Writing Award, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premiers Literary Award and a NSW Premiers Literary Award.
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