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Book SynopsisDiscover 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
Trade ReviewAn 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
