Archimedes And The Seagle
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when a seagull named Archimedes becomes the unlikely lens through which an entire human world is refracted? David Ireland's Archimedes and the Seagle is a bold, experimental novel set in Australia that chronicles the observations and inner life of a seagull navigating the chaotic terrain of human existence, using its avian perspective to satirise society with razor-sharp wit and unsettling precision. Ireland constructs a narrative that is simultaneously absurdist and deeply grounded, presenting a world seen from the margins — from the shorelines and refuse heaps where creatures of little consequence witness everything of consequence. A celebrated figure in Australian literature and a three-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Ireland writes with a muscular, sardonic prose style that dismantles social convention and political complacency with equal measure. His body of work, which includes The Chantic Bird and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, consistently argues that the outsider's gaze is the most honest gaze of all. Archimedes and the Seagle stands as one of his most inventive conceits — a fable that refuses to be merely whimsical, leaving the reader to wonder just how much the birds have always understood about us.
Author: David Ireland
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, The Viking Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when a seagull named Archimedes becomes the unlikely lens through which an entire human world is refracted? David Ireland's Archimedes and the Seagle is a bold, experimental novel set in Australia that chronicles the observations and inner life of a seagull navigating the chaotic terrain of human existence, using its avian perspective to satirise society with razor-sharp wit and unsettling precision. Ireland constructs a narrative that is simultaneously absurdist and deeply grounded, presenting a world seen from the margins — from the shorelines and refuse heaps where creatures of little consequence witness everything of consequence. A celebrated figure in Australian literature and a three-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Ireland writes with a muscular, sardonic prose style that dismantles social convention and political complacency with equal measure. His body of work, which includes The Chantic Bird and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, consistently argues that the outsider's gaze is the most honest gaze of all. Archimedes and the Seagle stands as one of his most inventive conceits — a fable that refuses to be merely whimsical, leaving the reader to wonder just how much the birds have always understood about us.