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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 415 pages. writing ffepThe Disillusioned is a ruthlessly honest memoir of a young man who writes bot h searingly and disarmingly about the highs and lows, the perils and promise of our times. The Disillusioneddocuments the struggle all too common for recent g enerations: yearning to find a sense of worth and a purpose to their lives again st the backdrop of abuses rife in modern society and the duplicity of political systems which favour the rich and powerful despite the hollow rhetoric that prom ises something else. The Disillusionedencompasses three decades, beginning wit h the impressionable child indoctrinated with the propaganda of Thatcher's Brita in and suffering sexual abuse, a lack of role models and any sense of belonging. It is a gripping story of obsessive ambition, discrimination, sex, scams, suici dal impulses, alcoholism, the search for love, loss and the quest for redemption in New Zealand. It is the author's story, but also the story of a disillusioned silent majority; the story of young people bogged down with debt and disillusio nment; the story, too, of the increasing dangers facing our children in a materi alistic world where family bonds and values are sacrificed for high incomes and status. The Disillusionedis a surprisingly compulsive read about what I call t he Misfit Generation - the one beguiled at first by the challenge of rational ec onomics and then bewildered by its effects. David Scott's odyssey is to find sel f-worth, to discover basic human values among the detritus of modern life. At th e end you can't be sure he's made it. But his story matters and he tells it with the pace and directness of a pro. - Gordon McLauchlan, writer and book critic.…