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The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.Hoi Polloi recounts a childhood spent on racetracks and in bars, as the author's parents struggle to climb the social ladder. It begins in 1968 in the small town of Heritage, New Zealand. Living above the bar of his family's hotel, the young Craig is exposed to violence, drinking and murky racial politics. His parents, whom Sherborne thinks of as "Winks" and "Heels" in his...

Evocative and moving novel about a family of itinerants roaming the plains of north-west Melbourne. Reminiscent of John Steinbeck or William Faulkner, this is an affecting story of rural family life.

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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 three-hundred-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 through a series of unforgettable, hilarious portraits: of "Feet, " his once-glamorous mother, now addled with snobbery, paranoia, and mental il...