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Published by Atlantic, 2011
ISBN 10: 0857891227ISBN 13: 9780857891228
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.
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Published by Penguin Random House, 2005
ISBN 10: 1740511948ISBN 13: 9781740511940
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by Bolinda Audio, UNITED STATES, 2015
ISBN 10: 1489085254ISBN 13: 9781489085252
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
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mp3_cd. Condition: Good. MP3 CD in MP3 format. You'll receive one MP3 CD, withdrawn from the library collection, that CONTAINS THE ENTIRE AUDIO PRODUCTION! We will polish the MP3 CD disc for you for a smooth sounding performance.
Published by Bolinda Audio, 2012
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Audio CD. Condition: Very Good. 11 NEW AUDIO CDS. BRAND NEW CDs IN THE SHRINK WRAP. Slight shelf wear. Enjoy this NEW GIFT QUALITY AUDIO CD performance. Audio Book.
Published by Penguin Random House Australia, Hawthorn, 2018
ISBN 10: 014379096XISBN 13: 9780143790969
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Special edition to coincide with the Australian release of the film Dead Europe. An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap.Special edition to coincide with the Australian release of the film Dead Europe. An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap.Isaac is a photographer in his mid-30, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration and of a globalised homogenous culture. In his mother's mountain village he encounters a Balkan vampire. Subsequently, as his journey continues across Italy, Eastern Europe and Britain he discovers that ghosts keep appearing in the photographs he takes, providing clues to a family secret and tragedy. Parallel to Isaac's story we are in the Greece of World War II. A peasant family is asked to provide protection to a Jewish boy fleeing the Germans. It is this boy who will become the vampire. From the mountains of Greece to the inner-city streets of 1960s Melbourne, we trace the journey of this malevolent force as it feeds on generation after generation of Isaac's family, seeking revenge and justice.From Christos Tsiolkas- 'In attempting to trace back through the mythologies, lies and truths of history, I want to examine how the legacies of the past still actively disturb our sleep in the present. Isaac's story is written in a contemporary idiom, in the first person, as he reflects on his alienation from Europe, on what it means to be an artist, to be a man in love, to be an ethical human in a supposedly post-ideological age . . . I am also attempting to understand the longest standing of all European racial legacies- anti-Semitism. The vampire is not only the restless spirit of a dead boy. It is also the golem, the Christ Killer, the killer of children. It is this legacy that Isaac must face . . .Now a major motion picture released by Paramount and Transmission films. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Atlantic Books, 2010
ISBN 10: 1848873557ISBN 13: 9781848873551
Seller: Karmakollisions, Molesey, SURRE, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Condition: (see pics.) The book is in a very good, clean and tight condition. Synopsis: The best-selling cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe here turns his blowtorch onto the belly of middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behavior. 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 incident. 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 21st 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. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.
Published by Vintage 2005, 2005
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Vintage Books. Reprint, North Sydney, NSW, 2005
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Donald Rumsfeld had it as 'old', now, in Christos Tsiolkas' hands, it's deceased. Pictorial wrappers. Tanning to extremities, very good. book.
Paperback. 1. The Slap is a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class from the controversial cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe. Longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. First published 2008. Allen and Unwin, 2008. A trade paperback copy in very good condition. 3.5 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 23 Centimeters.
Published by Cambria Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 160497978XISBN 13: 9781604979787
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is in the Cambria Australian Literature Series, headed by Dr. Susan Lever.More than two decades ago, Christos Tsiolkas's his first novel Loaded was published and he had achieved a cult following in the short-lived grunge fiction scene of Australian writing. The novel was quickly adapted as the film Head On (1998), directed by Ana Kokkinos, and starring popular young Greek actor, Alex Dimitriades; like the novel, it was well-received by critics, if not by mainstream literary and cinematic culture. For the next few years, Tsiolkas worked on Jump Cuts, an experimental collaborative autobiography, with Sasha Soldatow (1996), as well as a number of theatre productions - Who's Afraid of the Working Class (1999, co-written with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, and adapted to film as Blessed, also directed by Kokkinos [2009]), Thug (1998, written with Spiro Economopolous), and Elektra AD (1999) - but when The Jesus Man (1999) was published, its violent depiction of depression and suicide received critical attention as offensive and unnecessary. Partly because of the reception of The Jesus Man, and partly because of the density of its subject matter, his next novel, Dead Europe (2005) took six years to write. In the interim, he published a critical study of the film The Devil's Playground (2002), and several more plays and screenplays: Viewing Blue Poles (2000), Saturn's Return (2000), Fever (2002, co-written with Bovell, Reeves and Cornelius), Dead Caucasians (2002), Non Parlo di Salo (2005, written with Economopoulous), and The Hit (2006, written with Netta Yashin). Dead Europe was a triumphant return: it won the Age Book of the Year and the Melbourne Best Writing Award in 2006.But it was the extraordinary critical and commercial success of The Slap (2008) which entirely changed Tsiolkas's personal and professional circumstances. It was the fourth-highest selling book by an Australian author in 2009, won the ALS Gold Medal, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was Book of the Year for both the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Award. The Slap was also adapted as a popular television series for the ABC in 2011, and for NBC in the United States in 2015. For the first time in his career, Tsiolkas was able to dedicate himself to writing full-time, but the attention paid to the novel also meant that Tsiolkas was now a household name - no longer a cult writer, his opinions are now courted and offered in popular and political publications. Barracuda (2013) follows the social realism of The Slap, and sold similarly well, riding on the back of its extraordinary predecessor. Merciless Gods (2014), a collection of short stories, some new, some previously published, is only recently being taken up by popular critics.Tsiolkas's work has become increasingly popular and appealing to readers outside of the academy. Tsiolkas's works adopt a Modernist attitude to the concept of a utopia - a negative politics which simultaneously draws attention to the insufficiency of the present, a pastoral nostalgia for the past, and a longing for the impossible future to come. This first in-depth study of his entire corpus provides an understanding of Tsiolkas's position in relation to Modernism, thereby drawing out his points about character, setting and politics, thereby helping us to think about what place his ideas about the individual and the community might have in our reading of contemporary Australia and contemporary world literature.