Muck

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His parents have bought a big dairy farm, to be their estate and his legacy. On it they plan to build a grand manor house, where they can live out their fantasy of being self-appointed aristocrats while keeping him-their pride and heir-away from the local gold-digger girls. With staff to milk the cows and break in the race-horses, he is free to prepare himself for his illustrious future-principally by poncing about like Lord Muck. Muck is about what happens when things go wrong-hilariously, tragically-on the path to adulthood. Set in Sydney and New Zealand, it features a cow called Miss Beautiful, an encounter with the Prime Minister, and a church-going atheist who sings like Dean Martin. It is about overbearing parents, farm life, mental illness and the extremes of human vanity. Most of all it is about a young man and the world he constructs in order to survive his family and-somehow-discover a self of his own.

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Craig Sherborne's memoir Hoi Polloi was published in 2005. He is also the author of the verse-drama Look at Everything Twice for Me and two books of poetry, Bullion (1995) and Necessary Evil (2006). Sherborne's journalism and poetry have appeared in most of Australia's leading literary journals and anthologies, including Black Inc.'s Best Australian Essays and Best Australian Poems. He was born in Sydney.