The Glass Canoe by David Ireland
Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. 'The Glass Canoe' tells his stories, about the pub, its patrons and their women, about the brutal, tender and unexpected places his glass canoe takes him.
David Ireland was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south-western Sydney. He has lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time writer. Ireland started out writing poetry and drama but then turned to fiction. His first novel, The Chantic Bird, was published in 1968. In the next decade he published five further novels, three of which won the Miles Franklin Award: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The Glass Canoe and A Woman of the Future. David Ireland was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1981. In 1985 he received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel Archimedes and the Seagle. Nicolas Rothwell is the author of Heaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Journeys to the Interior and The Red Highway. He is the northern correspondent for the Australian. His new novel, Belomor, will be published by Text in 2013.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781921922411 |
| ISBN 10 | 1921922419 |
| Title | The Glass Canoe |
| Author | David Ireland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of Miles Franklin Award 1976 (Australia) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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