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Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter

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May 2015, no. 371

Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter

Scribe Publications, $29.99 pb, 263 pp, 9781925106404

Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter

by
May 2015, no. 371

Mattheüs (Mattie) Duiker is a thirty-something gay man with a chequered past and an addiction to porn. His Afrikaans father, Bennie, is a self-made man, a larger-than-life uber-masculine traditionalist who has forever cast a shadow over his family. Bennie is dying from terminal cancer, and Mattie is his primary carer. Mattie, desperate to make something of his life, sets out to create a business, but his dependence on his father for the capital to do so, and the legacy of their fraught relationship, hinder his attempts at independence. Mattie’s boyfriend, Jack, a popular housemaster in an affluent boys’ college, comes from an impoverished background with a previous drug addiction and debts to dealers hanging over him. Jack is a compulsive Facebook user; the book is punctuated by status updates that offer a shorthand insight into his relationship with Mattie.

Crusader Hillis reviews 'Wolf, Wolf' by Eben Venter

Wolf, Wolf

by Eben Venter

Scribe Publications, $29.99 pb, 263 pp, 9781925106404

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