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The Cutting

Richard McHugh

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English
Viking
30 August 2022
A darkly humorous novel about modern Australia and what it means to be a good person.

It's 2016. Lance Alcocke, sole heir to an iron ore fortune, forty-ish bachelor, has just lost control of his life's work. His newly opened mine, Madeleine's Monster, named after his pioneering, iron-fisted grandmother, was supposed to be a workers' paradise in the Pilbara. But the Monster can't cover its costs and Lance's Korean financiers are trying to steal his company out from under him. Lance has appointed administrators to APC Minerals, and his 1200 workers have lost their jobs.

Among those newly unemployed when the Monster goes under is young engineer Will Fulbright. Will's downhill slide has been gathering pace for some time. His formerly loved-up girlfriend, Justine Jamison, director of the refugee advocacy group Free All Refugee Children! (FARC!) and lefty girl about town, doesn't seem to like him much anymore. Will has no income, not many prospects, a slightly out of control drug problem, and finds himself back on his mother's couch in Fairfield. Meanwhile, out on the Bronte Cutting, Will's old employer, Lance Alcocke, and Will's girlfriend Justine are on a personal collision course of their own.

This is a novel of our times. It is about money, class, race, privilege, families, friends, lovers, duplicity and corruption . . . and whether it's possible for anyone to get what they deserve any more.
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Imprint:   Viking
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 1mm
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9781760899936
ISBN 10:   1760899933
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

After his unpublished novella about a lovestruck teenager was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1990, Richard McHugh completed his studies at Sydney and Yale, worked as an office angel in London and a Wall Street attorney in New York, and wintered with his partner and their baby in Utah. They now live in Bronte with an unexpectedly large number of children. When he is not driving two sons and two daughters around greater Sydney, he works as a barrister, makes photographs and writes. Madeleine's Monster is his second novel, after Charlie Anderson's General Theory of Lying.

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