The Chantic Bird
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- 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 gotsacked 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 teenage anarc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922182951 |
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| 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 |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘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 *
David Ireland
David Ireland was once a boy weakened by lethal asthma attacks. He was rendered dumb by a negligent doctor, was bullied at school, and was made an example of by teachers who predicted he would never achieve anything. Those teachers could not have been more wrong, because now David’s Wildlife Man films are seen by millions of people around the world, and his dream to highlight the plight of wild animals fighting to survive in the modern world is now a reality. His Crocodile Man doco was a global success in the early 1990s.
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