The slap : a novel /
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. In his controversial, award-winning novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents an apparentl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ontario. :
HarperCollins,
2009.
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| Edition: | First Canadian edition. |
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| Summary: | At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. In his controversial, award-winning novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents an apparently harmless domestic incident as seen from eight very different perspectives. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2008. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 483 pages ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | Best book winner, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2009. |
| ISBN: | 9781554686452 1554686458 |