The Flesheaters

The Flesheaters

David Ireland

Publication
1972

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The Flesheaters

A novelist who lives up in a tree; a child who likes to paint dead bodies; a granny who lives in a kennel and bites... these are some of characters of this extraordinary novel set in a dilapidated stone mansion in Sydney. Bizarre, bitingly satirical, richly ambiguous, it is an image of the modern world which the author sees as 'a madhouse without walls'.

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David Ireland

David Neil Ireland (born 1927) is an Australian novelist. David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales. Before taking up full-time writing in 1973 he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs ranging from greenkeeper to an extended period in an oil refinery. This latter job…

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