The Glade within the Grove is a 1996 novel by Australian author David Foster.
It won the 1997 Miles Franklin Award.
Synopsis Retired postman D’Arcy D’Oliveres, of Dog Rock finds an undelivered package at the bottom of an old mail bag. In the package is the manuscript of an epic poem called the Ballad of Erinungarah written by a young man named Timothy Papadirnitriou.
Critical reception Geoffrey Dutton in The Australian Book Review stated: "The Glade Within the Grove asks the deepest questions, of love and life and where the gods have gone. It is a novel of great importance, by any standards...[it] is the work of a master craftsman with a prodigious imagination."
Awards +Awards for The Glade Within the GroveYearAwardResultRef.1998International Dublin Literary AwardShortlist 1997 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner 1996James Joyce Foundation Suspended Sentence AwardWinner 1996 The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction Shortlist 1996NBC Banjo Award for FictionShortlist
Publication history After the novel's initial publication in 1996 by Random House in Australia and Fourth Estate in the UK, it was republished by Vintage in Australia in 1997.
See also 1996 in Australian literature Middlemiss.org
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