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The Fur [Paperback]

Nathan Hobby (Author)
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Book Description

July 30, 2004
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, Michael¹s 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.


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Winner of the 2003 Tom Hungeford Award for unpublished fiction, The Fur is The Catcher in the Rye for the third millennium, a darkly passionate attempt to articulate the struggle between the existential and the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".

From the Author

This novel has come out of a six year struggle to come to grips with the end of childhood and the meaning of life. I wanted to achieve the readability and thoughtfulness of my favourite writers Paul Auster, John Fowles and John Christopher in creating a dystopia that echoes teenage angst and religious guilt.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 283 pages
  • Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Pr (July 30, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1920731016
  • ISBN-13: 978-1920731014
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,896,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is my favourite novel, December 30, 2004
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The Fur is the kind of coming-of-age/looking-for-life's-meaning novel I wish I could have read as a teenager. But in saying that, I don't mean it's purely a young-adult novel. It's the kind of book that poked me in the very guts and stirred me all around in such a compulsively readable way. And it resonates with me long after reading the last word. The kind of book that I want to re-read now - only a few months after encountering it.

As a huge newfound Hobby fan, I eagerly await more of his work. It's that kind of book - that I just want to read more of, and that really affects me. The kind of book I tend to enthuse about and would recommend to anyone. Full of beautifully authentic characters, searching narrative and voice, haunting questions and choices of life. All played out in the imaginative, yet effortless and 'realistic' scenario of a state infested by a plague of fur and quarantined from the rest of the world. It touches the agony and the bittersweet, the fur-ravaged and the pure, the joys and the challenges of searching for a meaningful life.

Young adults of all ages should read The Fur.
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