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Barracuda

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804138435
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Barracuda written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an “immensely moving” (Sunday Times) story of a young athlete’s coming of age Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship, and take him far beyond his neighborhood, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of this dream. But what happens when the talent that makes you special fails you? When the goal that you’ve been pursuing for as long as you can remember ends in humiliation and loss? Twenty years later, Dan is in Scotland, terrified to tell his partner about his past, afraid that revealing what he has done will make him unlovable. When he is called upon to return home to his family, the moment of violence in the wake of his defeat that changed his life forever comes back to him in terrifying detail, and he struggles to believe that he’ll be able to make amends. Haunted by shame, Dan relives the intervening years he spent in prison, where the optimism of his childhood was completely foreign. Tender, savage, and blazingly brilliant, Barracuda is a novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family, class, identity, and the cost of success. As Daniel loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good person—and what it takes to become one.

Damascus

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1838950230
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Damascus written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the Roman Empire, a radical sect is growing. Alone, unloved and battling his sexuality, Saul scrapes together a living exposing these nascent Christians, but on the road to Damascus, everything changes. Saul - now Paul - becomes drawn into this new religion and its mysterious leader, whose crucifixion leaves followers waiting in limbo for his promised return. As factions splinter and competition to create the definitive version of Christ's life grows violent, he begins to question his new faith and the man at its heart. Damascus is an unflinching dissection of doubt, faith, tyranny, revolution, cruelty and sacrifice. A vivid and visceral novel with perennial concerns, it is a masterpiece of imagination and transformation.

Dead Europe

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857895648
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Dead Europe written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel. Winner of the 2006 Age Fiction Prize Winner of the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award Part long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the violence and tragedy of contemporary Europe, Dead Europe is an unsettling story about blood lust and blood revenge; a novel of blazing brilliance from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe. His whole life he has longed for the sophistication and wealth of the Europe of his father's stories, the Europe at the centre of civilization and culture. But behind the facade of a unified and globalized contemporary society, he finds a history-blasted wasteland, a place forever condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past. In the mountain village in the Balkans where his mother was born, he unearths ancient terrors that have not been laid to rest, and perhaps never can be.

Loaded

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446476936
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Loaded written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring, destructive world of clubs and drugs and anonymous sex, all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only way he knows how. 'One of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today' Colm Tóibín 'An addictive read' Stylist

On Patrick White

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369302991
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book On Patrick White written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Slap

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9781554686469
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Slap written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reverberations from the slap are far-reaching, affecting the marriages and friendships of all those who witness it. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex, marriage, and the fury and intensity that family can arouse. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas brilliantly weaves together a maze of complex relationships. Told through the eyes of eight different characters, the slap and the ensuing emotional maelstrom become catalysts for an unflinching and all-seeing journey into the modern family and domestic life. Children come of age, marriages teeter on the brink and midlife crises erupt against a backdrop of lust, jealousy, deception and inadequacy. In its penetrating and incisive examination of the evergrowing middle class and its fears and aspirations, The Slap is a fiercely intelligent and provocative story about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.

Seven and a Half

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781761470288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Seven and a Half written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap.

The Devil's Playground

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Playground written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christos Tsiolkas invites you into his twenty-five year journey of viewing and re-imaging the film. He remembers his first illicit experience of the film at age thirteen and describes how his views of it changed in later years. As he chronicles the impact of The Devil's Playground on the development of his sense of self and his love of cinema, he also explores the film in terms of sexuality, politics, history and aesthetics. Tsiolkas' account of what The Devil's Playground said, and didn't say, to him is a tribute to the power and possibilities of cinema.

Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique

Author : Andrew McCann
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783084057
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique written by Andrew McCann and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.

The Australian Ugliness

Author : Robin Boyd
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921656220
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Ugliness written by Robin Boyd and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd rallied against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitation of all things American. 'The basis of the Australian ugliness,' he wrote, 'is an unwillingness to be committed on the level of ideas. In all the arts of living, in the shaping of all her artefacts, as in politics, Australia shuffles about vigorously in the middle - as she estimates the middle - of the road, picking up disconnected ideas wherever she finds them.' Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance of the connection between people and their dwellings, and argued passionately for a national architecture forged from a genuine Australian identity. His concerns are as important now, in an era of suburban sprawl and inner-city redevelopment, as they were half a century ago. Caustic and brilliant, The Australian Ugliness is a masterpiece that enables us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes. This handsome anniversary edition is complemented by Robin Boyd's original sketches for the book and a new afterword by major contemporary architects.

Sticks, Stones

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742698697
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Sticks, Stones written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 0

The Best Australian Essays

Author : Black Inc
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 192187015X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Best Australian Essays written by Black Inc and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the benchmark for the Australian essay the definitive, up-to-date collection. Each year, The Best Australian Essays brings together the most outstanding non-fiction from around the country. In 2011, to celebrate a rich decade of writing on all manner of topics, Black Inc.

Fire Flood Plague

Author : Sophie Cunningham
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1761040448
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Fire Flood Plague written by Sophie Cunningham and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 began with firestorms raging through the country, followed by floods, and then a global pandemic that has changed how Australians think, feel and live. We all experienced this year differently, but one thing rings true for all of us: this is a year we won’t forget. This anthology brings together original work from a diverse collection of Australian voices, from writers to scientists, journalists to historians, all expressing what 2020 meant to them. They write of ash falling from the sky, fish dying on riverbanks, loved ones lost, loved ones reunited, the historical resonance of fire and plague for Indigenous Australians, geopolitical tensions, the changed nature of travel, friendships rekindled on Zoom, the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, the state of the arts and the media, the importance of nurturing our inner lives, communities destroyed and communities rebuilding. FIRE FLOOD PLAGUE is a vital cultural record of the resilience and humanity needed in these extraordinary times. Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggon, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joëlle Gergis and Delia Falconer.

Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

Author : Michael Earp
Publisher : Walker Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760651303
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories written by Michael Earp and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve of Australia’s best writers from the LGBTQ+ community are brought together in this ground-breaking collection of YA short stories. What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #LoveOzYA collection, twelve of Australia’s finest writers from the LGBTQ+ community explore the stories of family, friends, lovers and strangers – the connections that form us. This inclusive and intersectional #OwnVoices anthology for teen readers features work from writers of diverse genders, sexualities and identities, including writers who identify as First Nations, people of colour or disabled. With short stories by bestsellers, award winners and newcomers to young adult fiction including Jax Jacki Brown, Claire G Coleman, Michael Earp, Alison Evans, Erin Gough, Benjamin Law, Omar Sakr, Christos Tsiolkas, Ellen van Neerven, Marlee Jane Ward, Jen Wilde and Nevo Zisin.

Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear

Author : Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741765722
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.

Growing Up in Australia

Author : Black Inc.
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822073
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in Australia written by Black Inc. and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate book about growing up in Australia – a choice selection of wonderful stories and recollections This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.’s definitive ‘Growing Up’ series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways. Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirt and Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning. Contributors include Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch and many more. With a foreword by Alice Pung, this anthology is a wonderful gift for adult and adolescent readers alike.

From the Outer

Author : Alicia Sometimes
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863958282
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book From the Outer written by Alicia Sometimes and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of our great game, From the Outer brings together 30 personal stories about Aussie Rules from unexpected voices: those who are female, Indigenous or gay; those with a disability, a foreign accent or even – perhaps most dubious of all – literary leanings. Some are closet fans, some are out and proud. Many are ground-breaking and revolutionary, shaking up the institution that has dominated cultural life in Melbourne, and much of Australia, for generations. Some are actively involved in the game, such as Leila Gurruwiwi, panellist on Australia’s first all-Indigenous footy show; Angela Pippos, one of Australia’s first female sports commentators; and Jason Tuazon-McCheyne, founder of the LGBTI supporter group the Purple Bombers. Others, like Christos Tsiolkas, Sophie Cunningham, Tony Birch and Alice Pung, share their poignant, passionate experiences as spectators and supporters. Engaging and surprising, From the Outer shows how footy can both thrill and devastate, exclude and unite, by shining a light on the diversity and splendour of the game.