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The Deal - Alex Miller
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Book Title: The Deal
Author: Alex Miller
Set in 1975, The Deal explores the intersecting worlds of art, ambition, and personal responsibility. At the dawn of his writing career, Andy McPherson is juggling the challenges of fatherhood, a fragile partnership with Jo, and the search for creative fulfilment. When Andy takes a part-time teaching job, he meets the enigmatic Lang Tzu, whose genius and charm mask a troubled soul.
Lang lures Andy into brokering a high-stakes art deal—a decision that strains his relationship with Jo and forces him to confront his ideals. What begins as an act of friendship turns into a personal reckoning, as Andy faces the tension between his vision of art as a gift and the harsh realities of the commercial world.
With profound insights into love, sacrifice, and the compromises that shape a creative life, Alex Miller delivers a beautifully nuanced story. For fans of literary fiction steeped in emotional depth and intellectual challenge, The Deal is both poignant and thought-provoking.
Read if you like:
- The moral complexity of Ian McEwan’s Atonement
- The exploration of creativity in Richard Flanagan’s First Person
- Stories of human relationships like those in Helen Garner’s The Spare Room
Album Match: Nick Cave – "Ghosteen"
Blurb
Blurb
It's 1975, and at the threshold of his writing career Andy McPherson is navigating how to be fully present both for his partner, Jo, and their young daughter.
When forced to take a part-time teaching job Andy meets Lang Tzu, a charismatic and intriguing man. Andy is drawn deeper into a dangerous relationship when Lang asks him to prove his friendship by brokering a risky deal for a much-desired piece of art. Andy finally consents despite Jo's opposition. In the process, Andy is in fact negotiating his own deal with himself as an artist and is compelled to face up to the conflict between his conception of art as a creative gift and the realities of the art market.
Powerful and perceptive, Miller's profound and intimate depiction of Jo and her partnership with Andy, and his poignant portrait of Lang's troubled genius, form the beating heart of this beautiful novel.
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