A Fraction of the Whole
A Novel
by Steve Toltz
Recommended by Patrick OShaughnessy
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Australia and Fiction.
Meet the Deans"The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them . . ."Heroes or CriminalsCrackpots or VisionariesFamilies or Enemies." . . Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Australia and Fiction.
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Patrick OShaughnessy
“Outstanding book. Talk about immersive. Few other epic fiction books that left me wowed: thousand autumn’s of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell cloud atlas by Mitchell a fraction of the whole by Toltz”
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