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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1971, this is a ruthless and comic portrait of working class Australia.
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On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go, but they are also part of an unrelenting, alienating economy from which there is no escape.
In the first of his three Miles Franklin Award-winning novels, originally published in 1971, David Ireland offers a fiercely brilliant comic portrait of Australia in the grip of a dehumanising labour system.
Ireland states: '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.'
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David Ireland is praised for its harsh and remarkable depiction of a dehumanising labour system in Australia. Critics acknowledge its prophetic and fiercely comic portrayal of industrial life, suggesting it leaves a deep impact on readers shaped by their life experiences. The novel is frequently highlighted as a standout work in Australian literature, often compared favourably with Ireland's other celebrated book, The Glass Canoe.
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ISBN: 9781922147066
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 June 2013
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 326g
Pages: 452
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