The Contemptuary - David Foster

The Contemptuary

By: David Foster

Paperback | 29 June 2018

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Monasteries and gaols: David Foster, reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely.

Set in Goulburn and its surrounds, where Foster resides, The Contemptuary is a lament for a dying faith, a commentary on prison life and, perhaps unexpectedly from Foster in this, his sixteenth novel, an unputdownable whodunnit.

About the Author

David Foster is one of Australia's most celebrated novelists. He has also published two previous collections of poetry, The Fleeing Atalanta (Maximus, 1975) and The Ballad of Erinungarah (Vintage, 1997), which accompanied the Miles Franklin Prize-winning The Glade Within the Grove.
Industry Reviews
'Attempt to characterise Foster's writing and eventually one will run out of adjectives. There is simply no one remotely like him in contemporary Australian fiction. He is so far ahead of everyone else that it's not funny.'
Australian Book Review

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