Description

Champion of the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Prize, 1995. Albion Gidley Singer produces his world like a huge assortment of facts-facts he uses to aid their own standing and strength. After an uncomfortable youth, conscious that he's a disappointment to his father, he receives, the features of respectability-achievement running a business, a household. But beneath his comically great exterior, Albion's spirit remains a dim host to loathing and dread, driving him to frightening actions.