The Cook

Author(s): Wayne Macauley

Fiction

Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to decadence and whim, by offering up a part of themselves on every plate. It's a motto Zac takes to heart. A teenage boy with a difficult past, he throws himself into the world and work of haute cuisine. He has dreams of a future, of escaping the dead-end, no-hope lot of his fellow cooks. He wants to be the greatest chef the world has seen. He thinks he's taken his first steps when he becomes House Cook for a wealthy family. Never mind that the family may seem less than appreciative. Or refined. Or deserving. Power through service. But as the facade crumbles and his promised future looks unlikely to eventuate, Zac the Cook is forced to reassess everything. Sweet turns sour and ends in bitter revenge. Blackly funny and deliciously satirical, The Cook feeds our hunger to know what goes on in the kitchen, while skewering our culture of food worship.

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Winner of Most Underrated Book Award 2012. Runner-up for Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award 2012. Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2012 and Western Australian Premier's Book Award: Non-fiction 2011.

Wayne Macauley is the author of the novels Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe and Caravan Story, and a short-fiction collection, Other Stories.

General Fields

  • : 9781921758690
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.363
  • : February 2011
  • : 230mm X 152mm
  • : Australia
  • : August 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Wayne Macauley
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : A823.00
  • : 304