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He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat him, no one came close.
His whole life Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic gold. Everything he's ever done - every thought, every dream, every action - takes him closer to that moment of glory, of vindication, when the world will see him for what he is: the fastest, the strongest and the best. His life has been a preparation for that moment.
His parents struggle to send him to the most prestigious private school with the finest swimming program; Danny loathes it there and is bullied and shunned as an outsider, but his coach is the best and knows Danny is, too, better than all those rich boys, those pretenders. Danny's win-at-all-cost ferocity gradually wins favour with the coolest boys - he's Barracuda, he's the psycho, he's everything they want to be but don't have the guts to get there. He's going to show them all.
He would be first, everything would be alright when he came first, all would be put back in place. When he thought of being the best, only then did he feel calm.
A searing and provocative novel by the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Slap, Barracuda is an unflinching look at modern Australia, at our hopes and dreams, our friendships, and our families.
Should we teach our children to win, or should we teach them to live? How do we make and remake our lives? Can we atone for our past? Can we overcome shame? And what does it mean to be a good person?
Barracuda is about living in Australia right now, about class and sport and politics and migration and education. It contains everything a person is: family and friendship and love and work, the identities we inhabit and discard, the means by which we fill the holes at our centre. It's brutal and tender and blazingly brilliant; everything we have come to expect from this fearless vivisector of our lives and world.
作者简介
Christos Tsiolkas is an internationally bestselling and award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter.
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读后感
This is a book about the quest of a boy becoming a man, the definition of which is deceivingly static but is actually blur, elusive and controversial, always changing, extending, stretching, interrelating, and gets further and further complicated as our jou...
评分一周一口气读完。C.T一贯地对澳洲中层社会洞悉能力又一次在这本书里体现出来。这次选择了一位普通的抱有游泳奥运梦的高中生。倒叙的方式讲述了从努力，到希望再到幻灭，堕落再回复平常的过程。 这本书浓缩和尖锐的指出了澳洲千千万万中层家庭的问题，同性伴侣问题，...
评分This is a book about the quest of a boy becoming a man, the definition of which is deceivingly static but is actually blur, elusive and controversial, always changing, extending, stretching, interrelating, and gets further and further complicated as our jou...
评分一周一口气读完。C.T一贯地对澳洲中层社会洞悉能力又一次在这本书里体现出来。这次选择了一位普通的抱有游泳奥运梦的高中生。倒叙的方式讲述了从努力，到希望再到幻灭，堕落再回复平常的过程。 这本书浓缩和尖锐的指出了澳洲千千万万中层家庭的问题，同性伴侣问题，...
评分This is a book about the quest of a boy becoming a man, the definition of which is deceivingly static but is actually blur, elusive and controversial, always changing, extending, stretching, interrelating, and gets further and further complicated as our jou...
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评分Even if this book gets all the elements (i.e. identity (racial and sexual) and values in family and friendship), it doesn't necessarily lead to the conclusion that Barracuda is a good novel.
评分Even if this book gets all the elements (i.e. identity (racial and sexual) and values in family and friendship), it doesn't necessarily lead to the conclusion that Barracuda is a good novel.
评分中规中矩。
评分Even if this book gets all the elements (i.e. identity (racial and sexual) and values in family and friendship), it doesn't necessarily lead to the conclusion that Barracuda is a good novel.
评分Even if this book gets all the elements (i.e. identity (racial and sexual) and values in family and friendship), it doesn't necessarily lead to the conclusion that Barracuda is a good novel.
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