{"product_id":"9781922182951","title":"The Chantic Bird: Text Classics","description":"Author: Ireland, David\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922182951\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Mar 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I gotsacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling-I don't know which-and because Iwas hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung atme, I moved my head and swung back and this kid went in to one of the bosses with bloodcoming out of his mouth saying I was a standover man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird \u003c\/i\u003eis the confession of a teenage anarchist, who combines a contempt forcontemporary society with a great tenderness and warmth for his younger siblings and for Bee,the girl who looks after them.\u003cbr\u003e The first of David Ireland's masterful novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird\u003c\/i\u003e contains the same characteristicindictment of the bovine mindlessness of collective humanity, and the home-owning wageslaves.\u003cbr\u003e 'It has been my aim to take apart, then build up piece by piece, this mosaic of one kind of humanlife...to remind my present age of its industrial adolescence.' David Ireland\u003cbr\u003e This edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird \u003c\/i\u003ecomes with a new introduction by Geordie Williamson.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150364979358,"sku":"UBD-9781922182951","price":14.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922182951.jpg?v=1786964588","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922182951","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}