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Christos Tsiolkas
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Description for LOADED
Paperback. Ari is 19, Greek, gay, unemployed and looking for something to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs and drugs, Ari eases his pain the only way he knows how. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 267 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099757719
SKU
V9780099757719
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-92
About Christos Tsiolkas
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, ... Read more
Reviews for LOADED
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more