Muck: A Memoir

by Craig Sherborne

With their only son on the brink of adolescence, the nouveaux-riches Sherbornes move away from the city to start a new, gentrified existence on a three-hundred-acre farm--or "estate"--in Taonga, New Zealand. But life on the farm is anything but wholesome. Sherborne evokes his family's slide into madness through a series of unforgettable, hilarious portraits: of "Feet," his once-glamorous mother, now addled with snobbery, paranoia, and mental illness;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393337901
• ISBN13: 9780393337907
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.2"