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The Slap: A Novel
The Slap A Novel
Author: Christos Tsiolkas
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 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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ISBN-13: 9780143122661
ISBN-10: 0143122665
Publication Date: 2/22/2012
Pages: 496
Edition: Reprint
Rating:
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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2.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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shybusch avatar reviewed The Slap: A Novel on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
The premise of this book was very intriguing and part of the reason I didnt stop reading it. The story starts with a BBQ and a bratty child who is hit by someone who is not his parent. The rest of the story continues in the voice of various characters and how that moment became a part of each of their lives.

The characters in the story were completely unlikable. They were all selfish, indecisive, weak willed, and worst of all immoral. The books seems to have been written from the perspective of a man who wants women to engage in one-sided sex and who believes that a woman will continue to love her man solely because he looks good. The author's use of profanity throughout the book seems as if the author wanted to use vulgar words for no other reason than just because I can. His descriptions of a womans emotions and a womans sexual thoughts are completely inaccurate. As an American, I did not know what a lot of the slang terms used throughout the book meant.

Surprisingly for all of its vulgarity and for being anticlimactic, I didnt hate the book, but I definitely didnt like it.
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