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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

David Ireland

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Description:Australian classic. Dustjacket synopsis:"In his 'preface' which comes near the end of this extraordinary novel David Ireland says:'It has been my aim to take apart, then build up piece by piece this mosaic of one kind of human life...to remind my present age of its industrial adolescence.'"Piece by piece, David Ireland portrays a kind of life which is lived at an oil refinery in Sydney - from its highest tower from which one of the workers plunges to death, to the secret hide-out in the mangroves where the men refresh themselves with such ladies as the Sandpiper and Never on Sundays. He takes apart this vast industrial complex and its multitudinous characters, then reassembles it into a mosaic fiery and macabre, whose crazy patterns are lit with grim humour."The huge structure becomes an image, at once amusing and appalling, of the whole industrial society in which modern man is trapped."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. To get started finding The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 387

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Angus and Robertson

Release: 1972

ISBN: 0207122679

Description: Australian classic. Dustjacket synopsis:"In his 'preface' which comes near the end of this extraordinary novel David Ireland says:'It has been my aim to take apart, then build up piece by piece this mosaic of one kind of human life...to remind my present age of its industrial adolescence.'"Piece by piece, David Ireland portrays a kind of life which is lived at an oil refinery in Sydney - from its highest tower from which one of the workers plunges to death, to the secret hide-out in the mangroves where the men refresh themselves with such ladies as the Sandpiper and Never on Sundays. He takes apart this vast industrial complex and its multitudinous characters, then reassembles it into a mosaic fiery and macabre, whose crazy patterns are lit with grim humour."The huge structure becomes an image, at once amusing and appalling, of the whole industrial society in which modern man is trapped."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. To get started finding The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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