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Overview'Who wants to be the same as everyone else? You don't want to be ordinary, do you?' Melbourne, 1986 Tom always imagined he was adopted. At seventeen, he flees ordinariness in small-town Australia for the city and a run-down block named Cairo. There he meets Max Cheever. Enigmatic, artistic, anarchic: he liberates Tom from the bourgeois aspiration of university and draws him into his circle of dropouts and dreamers. Through the haze of parties and politics, Tom glimpses a darker side to their vie boheme. Falling under Max's spell - and in love with his wife - he is offered an extraordinary chance: to join them in the greatest art heist of the twentieth century. Among art dealers, thieves and forgers, Tom trusts only in Max. This is his family now. But of all this summer's lessons, the cruellest will be telling what is real from what is fake. In a rush of first love, risk and a search for belonging, Chris Womersley's third novel paints a two-faced portrait of friendship and betrayal. His instinctive characterization and fine-wire tension take us to a point of brilliant, heady uncertainty - that first blind step towards adulthood. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris WomersleyPublisher: Quercus Publishing Imprint: Quercus Publishing Edition: UK airports ed ISBN: 9781848663923ISBN 10: 1848663927 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 06 February 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAuthor Website: http://www.chriswomersley.comChris Womersley's fiction and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Granta New Writing and The Age. He is the author of the award-winning The Low Road and Bereft. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.chriswomersley.comCountries AvailableAll regions |