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The Slap
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Christos Tsiolkas
| Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 482 pages | | Release Date: | April 2010 | Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. When a man slaps a child who is not his own at a neighborhood barbecue, the act triggers a series of repercussions in the lives of the people who witness the event. Reviews"A layered, briskly paced story about complex people. Think Tom Wolfe meets Philip Roth. Or 'The Sopranos' meets 'The Real Housewives of Orange County."
-Oscar Villalon, "Los Angeles Times"
"Brilliant, beautiful, shockingly lucid and real, this is a novel as big as life built from small, secret, closely observed beats of the human heart. A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece."
-Chris Cleave, author of "Little Bee"
""The Slap" is nothing short of a tour de force, and it confirms Christos Tsiolkas's reputation as one of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today. In his new book, Tsiolkas puts a microscope to family life and presents us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. The luminosity of his prose and the brilliance of his characterisation render the ordinary quite extraordinary. Here is a novel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and Don De Lillo's "Underworld.""
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| Publisher: | Penguin Books | | ISBN: | 0143117149 |
| EAN: | 9780143117148 | | Dimensions: | 20.12 x 14.17 x 2.64 centimeters (0.40 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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 – Customer review on 28/05/2011
This book has occasioned a lot of controversy with many people thinking that it is misogynistic. It's overly simplistic to see this story as full of misogyny, but even if the charge held, novelists are under no obligation to be politically correct.
This is in many ways an old fashioned novel. It has a beginning, middle and an end
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 – Customer review on 19/10/2010
I couldn't put this book down. Yes, it is quite uncomfortable reading in parts, but I think it portrays its subjects well and accurately. No one is perfect in the book, just like in real life. There is a lot of swearing and drug use but nothing far from the truth for the type of people in the book. Maybe if you have never been exposed to people like this it seems over the top, but I know a lot of people very much like this (good and bad points) and thought it was very accurate. I highly recommend it.
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 – Customer review on 11/11/2009
It amazes me that this book won awards. It is a vile, expletive-ridden, violent misogynist book about a bunch of selfish, violent, drug-taking, whinging suburbanites who need a good slap themselves.
The potentially interesting story of the slap itself plays only a minor role in the book and seems to be only an excuse for the offensive horribleness that is this book.
I know that there are people in society like these people, but we don't need a book glorifying them by pretending to analyse them under the weak guise of being thought provoking.
We are all pretty unshockable these days, but that doesn't excuse using a novel as a place for repetitive, fairly explicit, nasty, hateful sex scenes.
Utter, inexcusable rubbish. If I could give it less than one point, I certainly would.
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