The slap : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780143117148
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Physical Description:
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483 p. ; 23 cm. - Edition: 1st Canadian ed
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2009, c2008.
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Subject: | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction Families -- Australia -- Fiction Australian fiction Australia -- Social life and customs |
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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. 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