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The Jesus Man

✍ Scribed by Christos Tsiolkas

Book ID
112253935
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
198 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781742745053

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✦ Synopsis

The second novel from the author of the bestselling Loaded and The Slap
The Jesus Man tells the story of three brothers, Dominic, Tommy and Louie, who come from a Greek-Italian family haunted by its history. When Tommy is made redundant from work and can't find another job, he finds the voices in his head becoming louder and louder as he sinks inexorably into pornography, violence and madness. Tommy snaps and murders someone who may or may not be a serial sex killer of children, and then castrates and kills himself, leaving his family numb with grief and incomprehension and at the mercy of the ensuing media feeding frenzy.
The Jesus Man is told from the point of view of Louie, the youngest brother, who is struggling to make sense of Tommy's death and the kind of world in which such tragedies are commonplace. Written with the remorseless, page-turning urgency of a thriller, The Jesus Man is an uncompromising and timely examination of the hell that...

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