- Booker Prize 2008 · Shortlist
A Fraction of the Whole
A Fraction of the Whole
Steve Toltz (born 1972)
English editions
Written in EnglishA Fraction of the Whole
Penguin · United Kingdom · 14 May 2009 · Paperback · 720 pages
A Fraction of the Whole
Spiegel & Grau · United States · February 2008 · Hardcover · 530 pages
A Fraction of the Whole
Random House · United States · 23 September 2008 · Paperback · 576 pages
A Fraction of the Whole
Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 2008 · 710 pages
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Jasper Dean, in his early twenties and behind bars, sets out to put the record straight about the two men in his family: all of Australia, he says, loathes Martin like no one else and worships Terry, the outlaw brother, just as fiercely. Martin is brilliant, paranoid and fixated on his own death, and he has raised his only son in a kind of intellectual captivity, full of lectures and theories. Jasper looks back on a boyhood of absurd schemes and alarming discoveries: a house in the bush hidden inside a maze, a seedy strip club, a mother who was never there, and Martin's doomed scheme to turn every Australian into a millionaire. The story ranges from the bush to bohemian Paris and the jungles of Thailand.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Australia, France, Thailand
- First published
- 2008
- Author's age
- 36 when first published
- ISBN
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9780385521727 (Spiegel & Grau, United States)
9780385521734 (Random House, United States)
9780241143902 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)
9780141031828 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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