The glade within the grove

By David Foster

Book Overview

Just as D'Arcy is about to retire from being a postman, he discovers an undelivered manuscript of an epic poem. In his own rather eccentric style, D'Arcy narrates the epic story which tells of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091832136
• ISBN13: 9780091832131
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Alpine counter-culture

This is the third, and largest installment in the trilogy of comic-thriller novels by one of Australia's most decorated writers. It follows Dog Rock and The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover in a sequence of stories involving the intrepid English migrant postman-cum-investigator D'Arcy D'Oliveres.Foster is a man with scientific training and a deep love of the classics: The Glade within the Grove is a reworking of the Attis myth stretching over a 30 year period from the 1960s in an unusual Australian context of the fictional location of Erinungarah in Southern Highland rainforest.A related volume, The Ballad of Erinungarah, the poem discovered in a old mailbag and the basis for D'Arcy's investigation, was published subsequently.The Glade within the Grove won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in the year it was published.