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Bezig met laden... The Furdoor Nathan Hobby
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"Michael Sullivan comes of age on the eve of the third millennium in a small country town in fur-ravaged Western Australia. Furred world, third world, he muses; it is the only life he knows. The infestation began before he was born. The state is strictly quarantined from the rest of the country and his burning desire to escape to Melbourne is matched only by his zeal to stay and play his part in making a better world. Revolution or escape? Hungry for love, Michael's dilemma is painfully compounded by his fundamentalist Christian preacher father, his obsession with beautiful and inaccessible girls, and his sense of guilt about failing to live up to his dying mother's wishes. The Fur is the Catcher in the Rye for the third millennium, a darkly passionate attempt to articulate the struggle between the existential and the political for all those who wish to be great." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.4Literature English English fiction Post-Elizabethan 1625-1702WaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
I wrote this book, so I won't rate it. It's a coming of age novel which tells three years in the life of Michael Sullivan, a teenager growing up in the furred world. For thirty years, Western Australia has been quarantined from the rest of the world because of a fungus growing on everything, even people. Michael starts out passively accepting and resenting this world, and his life as the son of a fundamentalist pastor. But when his mother is killed by the fur, he begins an existential quest for meaning. He is provoked to a higher mode of living by the strange Rebecca and troubled by his obsession with untouchable girls. As he moves to the city for university, he realises he must choose between escaping the fur and staying to make a difference.