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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 In Custody : Thomas Keneally and American Stories
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'Keneally has frequently put himself in the way of historical crises, and has risked and most often found his individual voice within epochal stories. Such patterns of risk-taking inform much of his work, including his engagement with American materials. Here I will focus on two of his several envisionings of the Civil War, the novel Confederates (1979) and the biography Abraham Lincoln (2003), and conclude with a differently focused work, the memoir Searching for Schindler (2007), which is an American autobiography in tone and strategy as much as in setting and character.'

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    y separately published work icon Australian Literary Studies vol. 30 no. 1 30 May Paul Sharrad (editor), 2015 10502546 2015 periodical issue

    'Selected and revised essays from a seminar held in September 2014 at the University of Wollongong celebrating fifty years of Thomas Keneally as a novelist.'

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