Book Reviewed by:Steve Toltz the man is as laconic as his character Martin Dean is loquacious.
The author bio on the book jacket simply reads: "Steve Toltz resides in Sydney,
Australia. A Fraction of the Whole is his first novel." This paucity of
information is quite rare for a debut novelist in our personality-obsessed
consumer culture.
Digging a little deeper, I found this extended bio on the publisher's website:
"Steve Toltz was born in Sydney and has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York,
Barcelona, and Paris, working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard,
private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter. A Fraction of the
Whole is his first novel."
Still not very illuminating, though, so it was time to investigate the private
investigator. After some clever sleuthing—okay, some Googling, but I had to
click through quite a few pages of search results to get anything juicy—I found
Toltz reminiscing about his time in
New York, about "the caf&#...
