![]() Some of them I have opinions about, well all of them really, but not in the context of this review. What are the issues? Corporal punishment, of course, by a person not the child’s parent or teacher paedophilia domestic violence multi-ethnic relationships homosexuality abortion adultery suburban tedium they all get a run. Perhaps he looked at Liane Moriarty’s sales and felt envious. It is not a novel, just a list of issues wrapped around a thin story. It was not written to be read, it was written to be marketed, to generate argument, to generate sales. I will say the worst thing I can about The Slap. The Slap is a waste, a waste of my limited reading time, a waste of his talent. Christos Tsiolkas (1965 – ) might have started out all rebellious, inner suburban and edgy, but The Slap (2008) has him situated with all he pretends to despise in middle class middlebrow Australian/Melbournian leafy suburban life and writing. ![]()
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