# The Slap

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- Book: [The Slap](https://www.bookquiver.com/christos-tsiolkas/the-slap) ([The Slap.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christos-tsiolkas/the-slap.md))
- Authors: [Christos Tsiolkas](https://www.bookquiver.com/christos-tsiolkas)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-714-8
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2010-04-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. In this powerful and riveting novel reminiscent of Liane Moriarty's Truly,...