A Fraction of the Whole
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Martin Dean spent his entire life analyzing absolutely everything – from the benefits of suicide to the virtues of strip clubs and passing on his self-taught knowledge to his son, Jasper. But now that his father’s dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the man who raised him in intellectual captivity, and the irony is this: theirs was a great adventure.
As he recollects the extraordinary events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries – about his infamous criminal uncle, his mysteriously absent mother, and Martin’s constant battle to leave his mark on the world.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
An ambitious book in which the author’s imagination flirts with the lunacy of his dysfunctional characters providing some larger than life but interesting outcomes in an Australian context.