{"product_id":"9781921961021","title":"The Glass Canoe","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Miles Franklin Award 1976. Introduction by Nicolas Rothwell.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeat 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Ireland\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1927 in south-western Sydney. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1968. In the next decade he published five novels, three of which won the Miles Franklin Award: \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Industrial Prisoner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1985 he received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for \u003ci\u003eArchimedes and the Seagull\u003c\/i\u003e. David Ireland lives in New South Wales. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicolas Rothwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWings of the Kite-Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Highway\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the northern correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etextclassics.com.au \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In a flash of inspired vision David Ireland has perceived that the real centre of Australian life…is the pub…which the novelist demonstrates and enlarges upon with great verve and menace and macabre humour.’ \u003ci\u003eNational Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163426144496,"sku":"9781921961021","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961021_p0.jpg?v=1763632149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961021","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}