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'Craig Sherborne enlivens us to the comedy, the pathos, the dignity and the pain of life. Muck is a masterpiece.' RAIMOND GAITA 'Mordantly true to life, Muck is one of the most interesting autobiographies I've read' J.M. COETZEE 'It is almost impossible to convey the sort of comic intensities Sherborne gets out of the pratfalls and banana skins of family life. Edwin Muir said once that the characters in Dostoevsky were not insane; they were just observed with such intensity that the realism and the compassion could be mistaken for a psychopathology. Something similar is true of Sherborne's portraits of his parents, abominations of excruciating ghastliness who become, through the paradox (and magic) of literary art, figures of comic delight.' THE AGE

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Craig Sherborne lives in Sydney, Australia. His memoir Hoi Polloi is due to be published by Old Street in 2010,

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