Loaded - Couverture souple

Tsiolkas, Christos

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0091831083 ISBN 13 : 9780091831080

Editeur : Random House Australia, 1995

Synopsis

Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats...We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhaused to our rooms, in tears or in fury. Ari is nineteen, unemployed and a poofter who doesn't want to be gay. He is looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. He doesn't believe in anyone or anything, except the power of music. All he wants to do is dance, take drugs, have sex and change the world. For Ari, all the orthodoxies of family, sex, politics and work have collapsed. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring, destructive world of clubs, chemicals and anonymous sex, all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only ways he knows how. Written in stark, uncompromising prose, Loaded is a first novel of great passion and power.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

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.

PRAISE FOR CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS AND LOADED:

'Passionate and angry, Loaded is one of the finest Australian novels I have read...pushing the reader into a face-to-face confrontation with the tensions that underlie Australian culture' James Bradley, author of The Resurrectionist

'Witness the excoriating power of Christos Tsiolkas's novel, Loaded, with its acidic, intelligent protagonist... Extraordinary' The Australian

'One of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today' Colm Toibin

Revue de presse

"An addictive read... Loaded is a must for your suitcase" (Stylist)

"Loaded is a high-octane, drug- and sex-fuelled romp through 24 hours in the life of Ari, a 19-year-old Greek-Australian gay man living on the margins of society. ... there is such a remarkable energy about Ari's narrative in Loaded, and so much self-aware humour and pathos, that it is utterly absorbing, and reminiscent in that respect of such debut novels as Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. Loaded is a glorious, almighty "fuck you" to Australian society, a primal howl of angst and anguish." (Doug Johnstone Independent on Sunday)

"Praise for The Slap: Nothing short of a tour de force. Tsiolkas outs a microscope to family life and presents us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. Here is a novel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Don De Lillo's Underworld" (Colm Toibin)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Australia
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091831083
• ISBN 13: 9780091831080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible