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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140059113
• ISBN13: 9780140059113
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Penguin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

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.