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Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 The Glass Canoe
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'On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool.

'Meat 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. David 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.' (Publication summary)

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Text Publishing , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pride of the Fleet : Introduction, Nicolas Rothwell , single work criticism
— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel ;

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1976 .
      Extent: 231p.
      ISBN: 0333210514
    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Sun Books , 1977 .
      Extent: 231p.
      ISBN: 0725102527
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1982 .
      Extent: 234p.
      ISBN: 0140059113
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1993 .
      Extent: 234p.
      ISBN: 0140169148 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

The Gift of David Ireland : The Glass Canoe Malcolm Knox , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 143 2015; (p. 29-37)
Malcolm Knox wrote this review essay in order to encourage people to read David Ireland's The Glass Canoe.
The Case for David Ireland's The Glass Canoe John Dale , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 April 2014;
[Review] The Glass Canoe Anna Krien , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 14 2012; (p. 28)

— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
Pride of the Fleet : Introduction Nicolas Rothwell , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 April 2012; (p. 18-19) The Glass Canoe 2012;

— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
The Great Unknown Stephen Romei , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 7-8 April 2012; (p. 27-29)
Pride of the Fleet : Introduction Nicolas Rothwell , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 April 2012; (p. 18-19) The Glass Canoe 2012;

— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
[Review] The Glass Canoe Anna Krien , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 14 2012; (p. 28)

— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
New Fiction : A Foursome Olaf Ruhen , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 64 1976; (p. 66-68)

— Review of The Middle-Aged Maidens Gwen Kelly , 1976 single work novel ; Four Faces, Wobbly Mirror Chester Eagle , 1976 single work novel ; Inside the Wardrobe : Twenty Stories Morris Lurie , 1975 selected work short story ; The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
[Review] The Glass Canoe Maurice Dunlevy , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 May 1976; (p. 9)

— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
[Review] The Glass Canoe Katharine England , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 July 1976; (p. 20)

— Review of The Glass Canoe David Ireland , 1976 single work novel
Politics of Self-Hatred: The Fiction of David Ireland Joan Kirkby , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and Psychiatry Conference : Collected Papers 1997; (p. 47-56)
The Glass Canoe : David Ireland (1927- ) Jane Gleeson-White , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 228-232)
Butterflies Flew Free : David Ireland's Australia Colin John Partridge , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: True North/Down Under , no. 2 1984; (p. 75-86)
Literary Heroes Forgotten Michael Heywood , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 22 January 2012; (p. 9)
The Great Unknown Stephen Romei , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 7-8 April 2012; (p. 27-29)
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