The Secret Lives of Them single work   review  
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Secret Lives of Them
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Jean-Francois Vernay finds the core event of the novel, an adult slapping an unruly child at a party, to be too flimsy to sustain the novel's 488 pages. With Tsiolkas's style in this novel seemingly informed by 'soap opera culture' spiced up with unconvincing 'slap and tickle scenes', Vernay suggests that readers who have enjoyed his previous works should 'slap the book on the table and eagerly wait for the next one'.

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    y separately published work icon LiNQ vol. 36 2009 Z1706400 2009 periodical issue Pop Goes the Region 2009 pg. 183-185
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  • The Slap Christos Tsiolkas 2008 single work novel
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