{"product_id":"loaded-by-christos-tsiolkas-9780143790976","title":"Loaded","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first novel from the author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eThe Slap\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFamilies can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats... We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhausted to our rooms, in tears or in fury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAri is nineteen, unemployed and a poofter who doesn't want to be gay. He is looking for something—anything—to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. He doesn't believe in anyone or anything, except the power of music. All he wants to do is dance, take drugs, have sex, and change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Ari, all the orthodoxies of family, sex, politics, and work have collapsed. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends, and the alluring, destructive world of clubs, chemicals, and anonymous sex, all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only ways he knows how.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in stark, uncompromising prose, \u003cem\u003eLoaded\u003c\/em\u003e is a first novel of great passion and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531911385324,"sku":"9780143790976","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4625953482239.jpg?v=1749291132","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/loaded-by-christos-tsiolkas-9780143790976","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}