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The Flesheaters

David Ireland (1972)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG
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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'.