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'By the best-selling author of Schindler's List, the moving story of a man who moves his family from the harsh poverty of British-controlled Ireland at the end of the last century, hoping to find new freedom in Australia. Instead, he discovers a different but equally stifling social order -- and a moral challenge that will force him to transcend the barriers of race and class.'
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Dedication: To the memory of my grandparents, who kept a store in the Macleary Valley.
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Epigraph: 'Terrors are turned upon me; my dignity hasteth away as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.' The Book of Job
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- Also sound recording, large print.
Works about this Work
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A National (Diasporic?) Living Treasure : Thomas Keneally
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 20-27) Although Thomas Keneally is firmly located as a national figure, his international literary career and his novels’ inspection of colonial exile, Aboriginal alienation, and movements of people throughout history reflect aspects of diasporic experience, while pushing the term itself into wider meaning of the transnational. -
Reconfiguring 'Asian Australian' Writing : Australia, India and Inez Baranay
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 11-29) Mapping South Asian Diasporas 2018; (p. 250-267) -
"The Outback", "River Towns" and a New Nation
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: From Fixity to Fluidity : The Theme of Identity in Thomas Keneally's Fiction 2009; (p. 77-85) 'Towns are significant in the Australian nation-building process because they mark a new attitude toward the land, and hence a new way of life. If the early convicts are visitors who have no other choice, the immigrants who build the towns in the outback are willing settlers in this new land. Instead of regarding the land as a disorienting and disappointing “hell” they happen to be thrown into, the immigrants tend to look on the bush, the pasture and the farm as a place with new hope and new opportunities. Though they still carry old aesthetic expectations and occasionally lament the strangeness and barrenness of “the outback”, they are far more ready to adapt and of course, to re-create. In this sense, towns are the beginning of really positive and constructive interactions between Australians and their land. ' (77) -
Contemporary Nationalist Revisions of 'Australia' : 'Illywhacker' and 'A River Town'
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies , Spring-Fall vol. 12 no. 1-2 2006; -
Song of the Pen : Archival Footage
2005
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 37 no. 3 2005; (p. 6-7) Thomas Keneally describes the different methods he has used to research his novels.
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A Federation of Heart and Mind
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 April 1995; (p. 8)
— Review of A River Town 1995 single work novel -
Community Conflicts
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 24 March no. 4799 1995; (p. 20)
— Review of A River Town 1995 single work novel -
Grand Gestures
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 25 May vol. 17 no. 10 1995; (p. 22-23)
— Review of A River Town 1995 single work novel -
Keneally Comes Home
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 May 1995; (p. C12)
— Review of A River Town 1995 single work novel -
Keneally Re-Visits the Past (with Variations)
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Macleay Argus , 27 October 1995; (p. 16)
— Review of A River Town 1995 single work novel -
Contemporary Nationalist Revisions of 'Australia' : 'Illywhacker' and 'A River Town'
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies , Spring-Fall vol. 12 no. 1-2 2006; -
Song of the Pen : Archival Footage
2005
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 37 no. 3 2005; (p. 6-7) Thomas Keneally describes the different methods he has used to research his novels. -
Reconfiguring 'Asian Australian' Writing : Australia, India and Inez Baranay
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 11-29) Mapping South Asian Diasporas 2018; (p. 250-267) -
The Birth of a Book: Doubleday Delivers `A River Town'
1995
single work
biography
— Appears in: Library Journal , 15 February vol. 120 no. 3 1995; (p. 122-124) -
Thomas Keneally: The Australian Connection
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: International Herald Tribune , 1 June 1995; (p. 20)
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Settings:
- Kempsey, Kempsey area, Mid North Coast, New South Wales,
- 1890s
- 1900s
- 1910s
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