A Fraction of the Whole
Ratings15
Average rating3.9
Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Guardian First Book Award 2008 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009.
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Solid work as a debut novel but I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it was 300 pages shorter. Despite its size it has very few characters in it and all the stories throughout the book follow the same pattern. It worked the first few times but got boring very quickly.
I sort of have a love/like thing going on with this novel, it probably deserves another half star, but since we can't give half starts, c'est la vie. The first 300 to 400 pages I loved, then I started to get bored and I found myself struggling to wade through the last 300+ pages. The writing is fabulous though, with many laugh out load moments. Steve Tolz can weave a tale, there is no doubt about that!
