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David Foster


Born
in Australia
May 15, 1944

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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)
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Average rating: 3.57 · 292 ratings · 44 reviews · 24 distinct works
The Glade Within the Grove

3.45 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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A Year of Slow Food: Four S...

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Dog Rock

3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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The Adventures of Christian...

3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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In the New Country

2.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Moonlite

3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions
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The Land Where Stories End

3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Sons of the Rumour

3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Plumbum: The ultimate heavy...

4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions
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Mates of Mars

2.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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“Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.”
David Foster, A Renegade's Guide to God: Finding Life Outside Conventional Christianity

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