Gary, frustrated, begins to drink heavily. She is contemplating sabotaging Gary’s condoms in order to have another child because “Hugo needs a brother.” Rosie and Gary have brought a complaint against Harry before a judge, but the complaint is dismissed. Since then, Hugo has been her whole world. At six months old, she almost contemplated walking out on the screaming baby-but this moment proved a turning point. His was a difficult birth and she struggled to attach to him. However, he admitted that he could "see why people might think it is misogynistic, in that the whole story is triggered by an act of male violence".Rosie’s point of view fills us in on the backstory of her relationship with Hugo. It's more complicated than being hate-filled. He also took issue with Knight's comment that the novel was loveless, suggesting instead that "it's curdled love. The former poet laureate Andrew Motion, who is chairing this year's Booker panel, defended The Slap, saying "quite unusually for a Booker book, the copy I read already had international bestseller written across it, which means that not everyone thinks it's a hateful misogynistic book". The last time readers were really split over titles selected by judges was in 2003, when Martin Amis's Yellow Dog and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time were both longlisted for the award and DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little went on to win it. Neill Denny, editor-in-chief of the Bookseller, said that there "hasn't been a divisive book on taste grounds" in the Booker lineup for years. The novel also won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The Slap is a bestseller in Australia, and UK sales are already rumoured to be colossal.Ī publishing insider said the novel had sold 23,000 copies even before the Booker announcement, an almost unheard-of figure for new literary fiction from a relatively unknown author. There is no joy, no love, no hope, no beauty, just these hideous people beating each other up, either physically or emotionally." "It's also unbelievably misogynistic, and I say that as someone who loves Flashman and Philip Roth.
"The whole novel has this ludicrous, comedy-macho sensibility – you get the feeling that if he'd been forced to read 'literary' fiction, Raoul Moat would have gulped it down in one sitting," said Knight. The writer India Knight said she hated the book. Another criticised its "constant obsession with bodily functions, sex, and the f-word" another wrote that "it had no heart, such terrible cynicism … I feel soiled after reading it". "Dull, boring and offensive," wrote one Amazon reviewer. Although reviews from newspaper critics have been positive – "riveting from beginning to end," said the Guardian "Tom Wolfe meets Philip Roth," said the Los Angeles Times – readers posting reviews online have far more mixed opinions.
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