A River Town

Author: Thomas Keneally

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  • : 21.99 AUD
  • : 9780340624746
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
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  • : June 2014
  • : 199mm X 129mm X 21mm
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  • : August 2014
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Barcode 9780340624746
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Description

In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing the spirit of the times, this is the mesmerising tale of a flawed hero whose stubborn integrity is nearly his undoing.

Promotion info

Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Keneally's first novel.

Reviews

The work of a great storyteller The Times A joy to read ... His skilful prose which seems effortlessly to capture the rhythms and cadences of at least six different emigrant races ... his essential humanity which enables him to examine misery and horror without ever losing his gift for hope and his old-fashioned insistence on a rattling good plot, crammed full of drama, will ensure the reader is thoroughly entertained Evening Standard Keneally makes us feel, very movingly, the intelligence and imaginative openness that lie deeper than Tim's prejudices and inarticulacies ... a novel [of] great vitality and charm The Sunday Times A remarkably vivid and moving portrayal of a hostile world where good struggles to shine through Time Out A masterpiece Literary Review A great read Mail on Sunday