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- PublisherAllen and Unwin
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1742374220
- ISBN 13 9781742374222
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
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The Slap
Seller: PulpFiction, Glebe, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. The book is unread. Wrapped in plastic and unopened. This is the Allen & Unwin 20th birthday edition. Green boards with an embossed figure of a child front and back. Colm Toibin endorsement on back. Seller Inventory # ABE-1633241161741
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The Slap
Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. 20th birthday ed. 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 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 loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth. 'Like all Tsiolkas' work, it is wildly energetic and fearless, thrillingly about our lives now.' - Helen Garner 'I can't recall an Australian novel that so perfectly encompassed the Australian middle ground while at the same time veering so far away from presenting traditionally white-bread characters. It's often said that the best politicians are those who can instinctively divine the zeitgeist of their country's centre. For the ones who can't, I would place The Slap as mandatory bedside table reading.' - Venero Armanno, Weekend Australian. 2010. A fine, unmarked copy that is still in the original publishers shrink wrap. A pristine copy. Scans available if required. Seller Inventory # 20906539
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Allen and Unwin, Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 1742374220
ISBN 13: 9781742374222
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Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 485 pages. The cover is slightly worn. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Signed by Author (?). Seller Inventory # 164242
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