| Record Number |
669367 |
| ISBN |
9781742673080 |
| Author |
Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965- |
| Title |
The slap [electronic resource] / Christos Tsiolkas ; read by Alex Dimitriades. |
| Edition |
Unabridged ed. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda audio, 2010. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 online resource. |
| Contents note |
Downloadable eAudiobook. |
| Duration: 15:42:23. |
| Fiction. |
| Performer note |
Read by Alex Dimitriades. |
| Summary Note |
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. 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. |
| Subject |
Domestic fiction |
| Families -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Audiobooks. |
| Added Author |
Dimitriades, Alex narrator. |
| Internet Site |
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