Christos Tsiolkas
Hardcover | Pages: 485 pages Rating: 3.2 | 25732 Users | 3104 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Slap |
| Author | : | Christos Tsiolkas |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 485 pages |
| Published | : | October 11th 2008 by Allen & Unwin Australia |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Contemporary |
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At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth.Identify Books As The Slap
| Original Title: | The Slap |
| ISBN: | 1741753597 (ISBN13: 9781741753592) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011), Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2009), Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2009), Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (2008) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2009), ALS Gold Medal (2009), Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.2 From 25732 Users | 3104 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books The Slap
At a suburban barbeque, one slap will change the lives of these people. Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly looks at domestic life in the Australian suburbs in the twenty first century. The slap and its consequences cause everyone to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. A gripping novel of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth from the very start to the end.Youll either love it or hate it; Christos Tsiolkas controversial novel The Slap isHaving sat on my to-read shelf for years, I took this on a plane trip recently. I expected to leave it abandoned in my seat pocket for another person. Instead I found it hard to put down.The premise of the story would never happen in reality at a party of adult friends and their children, Hugo, a four year old, goes to wack another child with a cricket bat and the father of the target stops this happening by slapping Hugo on the face. The parents of Hugo insist on police involvement and the
The word c**t and completely emotionless/hate-filled sex plus casual drug use does not make a story either good, controversial or interesting. There feels like there is only one character in this book, but it assumes different ancestry and genders. Just one hate-filled, drug and alcohol-fuelled zombie, playing all the parts. I hate this book, hate it, hate it, hate it, if I could unwrite it, I would. Books don't have to be angel sparkles, ginger beer and licky happy dogs, I don't mind
The Slap wasn't really anything like I was expected. From the title and the description, I expected the plot to be focused around the aftermath of Harry slapping his friends' child. Instead, it really just focused around the relationships of all the acquaintances and their personal lives. The Slap was mentioned a few times throughout the book but it really felt like it was in the background. I found it very hard to like any of the character as they were all incredibly selfish and hate-filled but
FLOAT!**NOW WITH TAX TIPS FOR DIVERSIFIED PORTFOLIOS!**So I've heard a lot this morning from various MEDIA OUTLETS about this 'Merkin show based on an Australasian show based on this novel based on the movie Precious based on the novel Push by Sapphire.All the descriptions say it's about a rugged individualist, a "self-made man" who slaps some dumb grimy hippies's's kid after that kid is swingin' a bat around recklessly at a birthday party/neighborhood cookout/commie picnic/wobbly parade
Dnf @ 31%Sometimes only a proper English phrase will do: The whole lot of them can bugger off!
This was one of the best books I've read in a long time. Filled with despicable but ultimately somehow sympathetic characters, a microcosm of friends and family becomes a commentary on the social make-up of the city of Melbourne, the country of Australia, and perhaps the world. That the story is told from multiple perspectives but still chronologically (ie. the episode around which the plot is centred isn't retold again and again) is genius and the complex, nuanced emotions of, reactions to and
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