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Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling - I don't know which - and because I was hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my ...Show more
Glass Canoe by Ireland David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The Glass Canoe The Glass Canoe David Ireland Classic Australian Works ISBN: 9781920897147 The Glass Canoe (1976) is the pub where the male workers aggressively shelter from their wives, their lives and their work. It is both a graphic illustration of the alienation of labour under modern industrial cap ...Show more
The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"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. ...Show more
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics by David Ireland
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fi ...Show more
Time Capsule by David Ireland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Time Capsule the poem-like writings of a breadth of fictional voices are gathered together in an incisive reflection on contemporary existence. Painting students, surfers, pharmacists, retirees, sports lovers, budding writers, Toastmaster members, churchgoers, people from diverse walks of life - all ...Show more
Woman of the Future - Text Classics by David Ireland; Kate Jennings (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top."--Patrick WhiteAn imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt--from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Aus ...Show more
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