City Of Women
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
City of Women is a bold and disquieting novel set in a near-future Australia where men have vanished from existence, leaving a society composed entirely of women navigating questions of power, identity, desire, and survival. David Ireland chronicles the inner life of Fin, a woman drifting through this transformed world, whose restless consciousness becomes the lens through which Ireland dissects the absurdities and contradictions of modern civilization. Written with the sardonic wit and unflinching irreverence that define Ireland's literary voice, the novel refuses easy answers, instead presenting a world both alien and uncomfortably familiar. Ireland, one of Australia's most decorated and challenging novelists — a three-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award — constructs this matriarchal dystopia not as a utopia but as a mirror, reflecting the distortions of gender, class, and social order that underpin contemporary life. His prose is dense, elliptical, and richly layered, demanding an engaged reader willing to sit with ambiguity and provocation. For those who dare to enter it, City of Women is a literary experience that lingers long after the final page, raising questions that resist resolution.
Author: David Ireland
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Allen Lane
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
City of Women is a bold and disquieting novel set in a near-future Australia where men have vanished from existence, leaving a society composed entirely of women navigating questions of power, identity, desire, and survival. David Ireland chronicles the inner life of Fin, a woman drifting through this transformed world, whose restless consciousness becomes the lens through which Ireland dissects the absurdities and contradictions of modern civilization. Written with the sardonic wit and unflinching irreverence that define Ireland's literary voice, the novel refuses easy answers, instead presenting a world both alien and uncomfortably familiar. Ireland, one of Australia's most decorated and challenging novelists — a three-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award — constructs this matriarchal dystopia not as a utopia but as a mirror, reflecting the distortions of gender, class, and social order that underpin contemporary life. His prose is dense, elliptical, and richly layered, demanding an engaged reader willing to sit with ambiguity and provocation. For those who dare to enter it, City of Women is a literary experience that lingers long after the final page, raising questions that resist resolution.