The cook

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The work The cook represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The cook

Statement of responsibility

Wayne Macauley

Creator

• trueMacauley, Wayne

Subject

• trueCooking schools
• trueCooks
• trueTeenage boys
• truePower (Social sciences)
• trueAustralian fiction
• trueGastronomy
• trueSatirical fiction
• trueCooking
• Teenage cooks -- Fiction
• truePerfectionism
• trueRevenge
• trueCompulsive behavior
• trueFood preparation
• Families -- Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueClass consciousness

Genre

• Fiction
• trueSatirical fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueAustralian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

One of the first lessons taught at Cook School is that you can achieve power through service. Troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to decadence and whim, by offering up a part of themselves on every plate and 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

Tone

• trueDarkly humorous

Writing style

• trueStream of consciousness
• trueDialect-filled

Cataloging source

ANL

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult