The Slap
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Price:
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$18.99
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On Sale:
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19/07/2010
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Formats:
Trade Paperback
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The reverberations from the slap are far-reaching, affecting the marriages and friendships of all those who witness it. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex, marriage, and the fury and intensity that family can arouse.
In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas brilliantly weaves together a maze of complex relationships. Told through the eyes of eight different characters, the slap and the ensuing emotional maelstrom become catalysts for an unflinching and all-seeing journey into the modern family and domestic life. Children come of age, marriages teeter on the brink and midlife crises erupt against a backdrop of lust, jealousy, deception and inadequacy.
In its penetrating and incisive examination of the evergrowing middle class and its fears and aspirations, The Slap is a fiercely intelligent and provocative story about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.
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Critical Praise for
The Slap
“What makes this novel a winner are its originality and the amazingly wide range of its characters. . . . Like canada’s Mordecai Richler, tsiolkas is unflinching in depicting the hypocrisies of his own community, but his portraits are never one-dimensional.”
-- Winnipeg Free Press
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The Slap
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 event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that...
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