Jump Cuts

by Christos Tsiolkas

Genres: Fiction

325 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of nine novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe,which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, long listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year.
Barracuda is his fifth novel. Merciless Gods (2014) and Damascus (2019) followed.
He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 1 out of 5]

All I remember from this book was Tsolkas writing about a particularly satisfying dump he'd had one day!

[Steve Maxwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

A different book. Interesting.