The Glass Canoe
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 award-winning novel, 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. Imbued with wonderful imagery, detail and characters, the subtlety of David Ireland's writing contrasts wonderfully with the rough-and-tumble humour of his characters.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1921922419
ISBN13:9781921922411
Release Date:May 2013
Publisher:Text Classics
Length:381 Pages
Weight:0.59 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.0" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
My favorite book, ever
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
If I could quadruple the score of this book, I would. Set in a pub in Sydney, Australia, and telling the stories of the drinkers there, it is a fantastic mixture of coarse, often scatalogical humor and a lyrical love story, albeit told in a gruff manner. The imagery and detail is fantastic - measuring a pulse like feeling knots in a thread; reflections in an oily puddle - each time I go to this book I come back with something new. Please reprint it - my dogeared copy is soon going to give way on me. And this book understands drinkers like no other I've read. My favorite book ever, I can't recommend it enough.
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