The Chantic Bird
$14.75
- Paperback
260 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2015
Summary
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 head and swung back and this kid went in to one of the bosses with blood coming out of his mouth saying I was a standover man.
The Chantic Bird is the confession of a tee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922182951 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922182958 |
| Author: | David Ireland |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 260 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 534mm x 175mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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‘One of the most remarkable novels–first, fifth or fifteenth–to appear on the scene for many a long day…Compassionate and pitiless, savage and sad, ironic and naive, horrifying and farcical.’
‘One of the most remarkable novels—first, fifth or fifteenth—to appear on the scene for many a long day…Compassionate and pitiless, savage and sad, ironic and naive, horrifying and farcical.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘Gloriously and savagely comic.’ * Adelaide Advertiser *
About The Author
David Ireland
David Ireland was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south-western Sydney. He lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time writer.
Ireland started out writing poetry and drama but then turned to fiction. His first novel, The Chantic Bird, was published in 1968. In the next decade he published five further novels, three of which won the Miles Franklin Award: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The Glass Canoe and A Woman of the Future.
David Ireland was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1981. In 1985 he received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel Archimedes and the Seagull.
David Ireland lives in New South Wales.
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