The Glass Canoe: Text Classics
Author: Ireland, David
ISBN: 9781921922411
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 26 Apr 2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Introduced byNicolas Rothwell
Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1976
On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool.
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. David Ireland's novel tells his stories, about the pub, its patrons and their women, about the brutal, tender and unexpected places his glass canoe takes him.
www.textclassics.com.au
ISBN: 9781921922411
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 26 Apr 2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Introduced byNicolas Rothwell
Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1976
On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool.
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. David Ireland's novel tells his stories, about the pub, its patrons and their women, about the brutal, tender and unexpected places his glass canoe takes him.
www.textclassics.com.au
