The Jesus Man
1999
First Published
3.39
Average Rating
413
Number of Pages
When Tommy is made redundant, he finds the voices in his head becoming louder as he sinks into pornography, violence and madness. He snaps and murders someone who may or may not be a serial sex killer of children, then castrates and kills himself, leaving his family numb with grief and at the mercy of the ensuing media feeding
Avg Rating
3.39
Number of Ratings
420
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
13%
1 STARS
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Author
Christos Tsiolkas
Author · 14 books
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.
