Hitting the wall: two novellas

by David Foster

Two novellas, one concerning a public servant who goes back to the land and the gradual breakdown of his marriage. "The Job" concerns an ex-prisoner released from prison and joining up with a seedy car repairman who enlists him on various "jobs" involving the burgling of clubs.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

David Manning Foster (born 15 May 1944) is an Australian novelist and scientist. He has written a range of satires on the theme of the decline of Western civilization, as well as producing short stories, poetry, essays, and a number of radio plays.

Foster writes in an Australian tradition of idiosyncratic satire and comedy that may be traced through the work of Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert and David Ireland. His novels are the most wide-ranging and fearless of the Australian novels that have contributed to the late twentieth-century re-examination of Western ideologies and the literary forms in which they are expressed. ('Foster: The Satirist of Australia' by Susan Lever)