The Glass Canoe

By David Ireland

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

• 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

My favorite book, ever

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.