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The Slap |  | Author: Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher: Tuskar Rock
Category: Book
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 30
Media: Paperback
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 1848873557
EAN: 9781848873551
ASIN: 1848873557
Publication Date: May 1, 2010
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Product Description
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.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 71
 Why all the fuss? September 9, 2010
Crusty (London, UK)
It's readable and the characters are well drawn, but I can't understand the acclaim. There's too much wrong with it. It's quite shlocky. There's too much gratuitous sex. The narrative tension largely evaporates after the court case - just over halfway, in other words. And yes, I think it is misogynistic. Interesting that it didn't after all make the Mann Booker shortlist.
 Fit for the bin! September 8, 2010
MaryG
This depressing puerile book is an embarrassment on the Booker list, surely? For stereoptyped, boring and banal melodrama this ticks all the boxes. I find it offensive that is has received the attention it has, and it is the only book I have ever thrown in the bin. Literally. I had bought it for professional reasons as the topic appeared to have relevance for my work. That was a con.
Probably the worst book I've ever not read! September 7, 2010
P. Weir (Dublin, Ireland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The very first page of The Slap is an indication of what the rest of this book is like. I hated it - the language was gratuitously crass, the characters quite unimaginable - in my 'real' life, anyway. Always wanting to give a book a fair chance I stayed with it for a torturous 50 pages or so and then gave up. I couldn't even bring myself to take it to Oxfam for re-sale, it was so awful. How can someone like Colm Toibin have applauded it so?! I'm baffled that it made the Booker longlist - incredible!!
Bit of a let down September 6, 2010
Book clubber
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is 'the book to read' this summer but I can't work out why. The prose style is standard, easy enough to read without being remarkable, and the premise is an interesting one but the characters are uniformly unpleasant and I wanted to slap the lot of them, never mind just the brat. Gave up by chapter three.
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK September 6, 2010
BENJAMINA
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I hated this book, I hated the people, it was badly written and it is now on he bonfire!
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