The slap
Record details
- ISBN: 9781848878600
- ISBN: 1848878605
- ISBN: 9781554688395
- ISBN: 1554688396
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Canada, 2010.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, January 31, 2014). |
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Subject: | Families -- Australia -- Fiction Suburban life -- Australia -- Fiction Interpersonal relations -- Fiction Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
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.