A River Town by Thomas Keneally

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Thomas Keneally
• Title: A River Town
• Publisher: ‎ Nan A. Talese / Doubleday; First Edition (April 1, 1995)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 324 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0385476965
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0385476966
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.45 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show minor markings inside front cover)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: Fist Edition

Synopsis:

By the author of Schindler’s List and Woman of the Inner Sea

The time is the start of the century. The place is a seemingly peaceful Australian town on the banks of the Macleay River in New South Wales. Here Tim Shea has come from distant Ireland to build a new life free of the crippling poverty and bleak horizons of the past. But he finds that this land of opportunity is a land of perilous choices. As a good man in a less than perfect world, he also finds that the price of goodness can be painfully high.

Thomas Keneally has created one of the most wonderfully realized characters in modern fiction, forced to confront questions of duty and desire, race and sex, class and caste, politics and religion, in a town that becomes a vividly moving microcosm of humanity’s strengths and weaknesses, tragedies and triumphs. A River Town is engrossing, funny, and touching – vintage Keneally.

About the Author:

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty novels since. They include SCHINDLER'S ARK, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, CONFEDERATES and GOSSIP FROM THE FOREST, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

His most recent novels are THE DAUGHTERS OF MARS, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, SHAME AND THE CAPTIVES and NAPOLEON'S LAST ISLAND.

He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir HOMEBUSH BOY, SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER and AUSTRALIANS. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.