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Genre/Form: | Picaresque literature Humorous fiction Domestic fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Toltz, Steve, 1972- Fraction of the whole. Camberwell, Vic. : Hamish Hamilton, ©2008 (OCoLC)648995308 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steve Toltz |
ISBN: | 9780241015292 0241015294 9780241015285 0241015286 |
OCLC Number: | 192043157 |
Awards: | Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009 Short-listed for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2008 |
Description: | 710 pages ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Steve Toltz. |
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Abstract:
After his father's death, Jasper reflects on Martin Dean, the man who had raised him in intellectual captivity and who had spent his entire life analyzing absolutely everything, and describes his father's failed battle to make a lasting impression on the world.

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