Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas continues the project of bringing troubling ideas about the Australian mainstream within the view of a mainstream www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. · Barracuda is the writer's fifth novel and follows the previous four, especially The Slap and Dead Europe, in conducting a loud and provocative argument about what it Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Tender, savage, and blazingly brilliant, Barracuda is a novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family, class, identity, and the cost of success. As Daniel loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good person - and what it takes to become one.
This is nothing new for Tsiolkas; a passage of Dead Europe, his third novel, was once shortlisted for The Guardian's bad sex award. Actually, in Barracuda, the sex is worlds better than it was in The Slap, which had a racy tone that at times felt almost lewd, rather like the pervy bits in a Jonathan Franzen novel. (To give an example, Aisha. The Observer Christos Tsiolkas. Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas - review. The author of The Slap wins round our sceptical reviewer with a resonant follow-up set in the world of Olympic swimming. Tsiolkas writes with both the savagery of a machete and the precision of a scalpel. Danny/Daniel/Barracuda has a talent, which earns him a scholarship at a private school in Melbourne, an exceptional coach, the apparent respect of his peers and a determination for the future.
Barracuda is the writer's fifth novel and follows the previous four, especially The Slap and Dead Europe, in conducting a loud and provocative argument about what it means to be Australian. Half. Christos Tsiolkas’s brilliant Barracuda will make you think about what Olympic athletes sacrifice to be faster, higher and stronger. It’s not as savagely satirical as his breakthrough novel, The Slap (now a TV series), but it does offer an intriguing look at contemporary Australian life. Tsiolkas’s Pan Pacific reference could be a nod to Luhrmann or it could be no such thing, but, like the film, Barracuda combines sharp social portraiture with that rare ingredient, a story that speaks to the human condition. In writing this review, I read the book a second time.
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