The Glass Canoe
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
1 rating
My favorite book, ever
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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.
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