
The Chantic Bird by David Ireland
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 got sacked 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 anarchist, who combines a contempt for contemporary society with a great tenderness and warmth for his younger siblings and for Bee, the girl who looks after them.
The first of David Ireland's masterful novels, The Chantic Bird contains the same characteristic indictment of the bovine mindlessness of collective humanity, and the home-owning wage slaves.
This edition of The Chantic Bird comes with a new introduction by Geordie Williamson.
Format: Paperback | 272 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.7 | 282g -
Publication Date: 25 Mar 2015
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publication City/Country: Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1922182958
ISBN13: 9781922182951
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, and very minor (not very noticeable) creasing on the bottom-right corner of the front cover, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.