The explosive first novel from the author of The Slap plunges you the drug and sex-fuelled existence of Ari, who is looking for release.
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels: Loaded (filmed as Head-On) The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. The Slap won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2009 and was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal. His most recent novel, Barracuda, was published in 2014, followed by a collection of stories, Merciless Gods, in 2015. and He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
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.
*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*
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