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The Slapping Man

by Andrew Lindsay

Narrator Peter Hosking

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Length 7 hours 25 minutes

Language English

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Welcome to Salvation, known to the locals as Ruination - a bawdy, ribald town where nothing is sacred except perhaps the beer, the sex and the fishing. The people who live there are villainous, perverse, and unashamedly venal: there is John, who runs the local pub, Jean Flinch whose reputation at the Virgin Wall is infamous and little orphan Ernie, whose giant jawbone is both a curse and a blessing. When Ernie re-invents himself as The Slapping Man, all hell breaks loose as the locals clamour to find their own salvation by giving Ernie a good slap. Indeed it seemed that Ernie could rejuvenate the town on mass. There was just one problem - Slapping Men don't live forever.

Fiction Humor

Andrew Lindsay has a background in comic theatre and has been a writer, performer and director. He studied with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and went on to form Red Weather, an anarchic music theatre group, in Sydney. In 1995 he won the Radio National Books and Writing Short Story Competition and his novel The Breadmaker's Carnival was joint winner of the Jim Hamilton Award. He lives in Sydney.

Peter Hosking is an actor with 40 years of stage, film and television experience and has narrated over 160 audiobooks. He toured Australia with the stage show Certified Male, appeared on television in Blue Heelers and on-screen in Pride, Siam Sunset, The Wogboy and Razor Eaters. Now living in Europe, he has toured with stage shows within Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the USA and Egypt as well as filming in the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Canary Islands and Poland. He continues to record for Bolinda from his base in Prague.