Commentary
Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘The In-Between’ (Review)
Though of course plenty of writers can supply the smaller details, what makes Tsiolkas exceptional is his ability to show how excessive and unstable our senses are, how we never just enjoy our perceptions in some benign way, but find them turning continuously into greed, and then shame, and then greed again.
Source: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘The In-Between’ (Review) by Sean O’Beirne
What we want is always irresponsible, or immoral, or impossible.
Source: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘The In-Between’ (Review) by Sean O’Beirne
The middle-class, left-liberal, virtue-signalling people who will mostly read this book (and I include myself in this) do badly need to be told a story about how many problems won’t have a solution, exactly, and how much insane desire lies in every human heart.
Source: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘The In-Between’ (Review) by Sean O’Beirne
Christos Tsiolkas The In-Between
There’s a trick Christos Tsiolkas does in his eighth novel, The In-Between. At several points in the action, as the central drama plays out in the foreground, the focus drifts away. Tsiolkas brings our attention instead to a passing youth on the street or the gaze of another commuter.
Despite these glances away, The In-Between is an intensely interior book with Tsiolkas’s trademark unflinching intimacy and access to the thoughts, fears, rages and lusts of his characters. It makes these other moments all the more acute when they occur. They offer us an external view of proceedings, giving us the distance to see our protagonists afresh
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The In-Between by Michael Williams
Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel The In-Between
An idea is louder than snoring
Source: Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel The In-Between – ABC Listen by ABC Radio Melbourne
What I want from fiction is that it sets up questions.
Source: Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel The In-Between – ABC Listen by ABC Radio Melbourne
Fiction puts you in shoes that are not comfortable.
Source: Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel The In-Between – ABC Listen by ABC Radio Melbourne