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Barracuda
Christos Tsiolkas
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Description for Barracuda
Paperback. The boy who wanted to be the best..before he realised what that meant. Barracuda is the electrifying coming-of-age novel from the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Slap Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 422.
From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.
Longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
You lose everything. In front of everyone. Where do you go from here?
Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as his revenge on the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782392446
SKU
V9781782392446
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of The Slap, which won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2009 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. He lives in Melbourne.
Reviews for Barracuda
Tsiolkas writes with compelling clarity about the primal stuff that drives us all: the love and hate and fear of failure... A brilliant, beautiful book. If it doesn't make you cry, you can't be fully alive.
Sunday Times
I finished Barracuda on a high: moved, elated, immersed... This is the work of a superb writer who has completely ... Read more
Sunday Times
I finished Barracuda on a high: moved, elated, immersed... This is the work of a superb writer who has completely ... Read more