The Slapping Man
Andrew Lindsay
May 2014 · Allen & Unwin
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The Slapping Man a bawdy, hilarious, poignant tale of a world turned inside out.
Welcome to Salvation, a ribald town where nothing is sacred - except perhaps the beer, the sex and the fishing. A town so haunted by its past it can only function in the present. No wonder the locals call this place Ruination.
The people are ready for a saviour and when Ernie, The Slapping Man, enters their lives he beguiles them with a most unusual patter:
Don't be sad, no need to frown, The Slapping Man has come to town. Feel your life's a horrid trap? Just step up and take a slap!'
The odd thing is that it seems to work a single slap and they glow with joy. Is it true? Does Ernie's jaw really have magical properties?
Suddenly the people of Salvation are caught up in a strange mania: the pure addiction to the pleasure of letting fly at The Slapping Man. Rejuvenation is theirs as Ernie becomes Salvation's salvation.
There's just one problem - Slapping Men don't last forever . . .
The Slapping Man another creation of intoxicating wildness and excitement. A big, slapping shout of a book from a writer who creates and celebrates his own world of the marvellous, the mythical, and the grotesque.' Peter Bishop, Varuna Writers Centre iew - Katharine England
Welcome to Salvation, a ribald town where nothing is sacred - except perhaps the beer, the sex and the fishing. A town so haunted by its past it can only function in the present. No wonder the locals call this place Ruination.
The people are ready for a saviour and when Ernie, The Slapping Man, enters their lives he beguiles them with a most unusual patter:
Don't be sad, no need to frown, The Slapping Man has come to town. Feel your life's a horrid trap? Just step up and take a slap!'
The odd thing is that it seems to work a single slap and they glow with joy. Is it true? Does Ernie's jaw really have magical properties?
Suddenly the people of Salvation are caught up in a strange mania: the pure addiction to the pleasure of letting fly at The Slapping Man. Rejuvenation is theirs as Ernie becomes Salvation's salvation.
There's just one problem - Slapping Men don't last forever . . .
The Slapping Man another creation of intoxicating wildness and excitement. A big, slapping shout of a book from a writer who creates and celebrates his own world of the marvellous, the mythical, and the grotesque.' Peter Bishop, Varuna Writers Centre iew - Katharine England
The Slapping Man a bawdy, hilarious, poignant tale of a world turned inside out.
Welcome to Salvation, a ribald town where nothing is sacred - except perhaps the beer, the sex and the fishing. A town so haunted by its past it can only function in the present. No wonder the locals call this place...
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ANDREW LINDSAY has worked in journalism and theatre, and prepared four oral histories of Collingwood, Melbourne's archetypical working class community. The most recent of these, When Fish Had Feathers, was commended in the Victorian Community History Awards 2003.
Andrew's first novel, The Breadmaker's Carnival, was published by Allen + Unwin in hardback and paper editions. German and US editions followed. Joint winner of the Jim Hamilton Award, it delighted readers around the country and attracted stunning reviews. His much anticipated second novel, The Slapping Man, continues to entertain with extraordinary energy and talent.
Andrew's first novel, The Breadmaker's Carnival, was published by Allen + Unwin in hardback and paper editions. German and US editions followed. Joint winner of the Jim Hamilton Award, it delighted readers around the country and attracted stunning reviews. His much anticipated second novel, The Slapping Man, continues to entertain with extraordinary energy and talent.
ANDREW LINDSAY has worked in journalism and theatre, and prepared four oral histories of Collingwood, Melbourne's archetypical working class community. The most recent of these, When Fish Had Feathers, was commended in the Victorian Community History Awards 2003.
Andrew's first novel, The Breadm...
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