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The Boarding School Memoir Or Novel Is An Enduring Literary Subgenre, From 1950s Classics Such As The Catcher In The Rye To Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep. Doust's Recognisably Australian Contribution To The Genre Draws On His Own Experiences In A West Australian Boarding School In This Clever, Polished, Detail-rich Debut Novel. From The Opening Pages, The Reader Is Wholly Transported Into The Head Of Jack Muir, A Sensitive, Sharp-eyed Boy From Small-town WA Who Is Constantly Measured (unfavourably) Against His Goldenboy Brother. The Distinctive, Masterfully Inhabited Adolescent Narrator Recalls The Narrator In Darkly Funny Coming-of-age Memoir Hoi Polloi (Craig Sherborne) - As Does The Juxtaposition Of Stark Naivety And Carefully Mined Knowingness.' - Bookseller+Publisher
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