The Age
·general
·2 hours ago
Steve Toltz’s new novel is jokey, polymathic and turned up to 11
Steve Toltz's fourth novel "A Rising of the Lights" follows 50-something Rusty Wilson, abandoned by family and struggling with unemployment and infidelity. The Booker-shortlisted comic bildungsroman explores middle-age coming-of-age through overlapping family dramas and Rusty's failed career as a child psychologist. Toltz fills the narrative with hyperactive humor and irreverent observations about mortality, parenthood, and the chaos of adult.
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