Steve Toltz

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born

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

gender

male

website

http://www.stevetoltz.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Steve Toltz (born in 1972) is an Australian novelist.

Toltz graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter.

A Fraction of the Whole, his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts. The narration of the novel alternates between Jasper Dean, a philosophical, idealistic boy, who grows up throughout the novel and his father, Martin Dean, a philosopher and shut-in described at the start of the novel as "the most h...more

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Books by Steve Toltz

Average rating: 3.89 · 3,526 ratings · 765 reviews · 2 distinct works

	A Fraction of the Whole 3.89 avg rating — 3,528 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions	My rating:
	The Best of Barcelona INK by Ryan Chandler (Editor), Richard Manchester, Màrius Serra 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Quotes by Steve Toltz

“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: relationships

56 people liked it

“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: self-awareness , self-discovery

50 people liked it

“Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: regret , relationships

35 people liked it

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