Thomas Keneally

Australians (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first volume of a unique 3-volume history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Volume 1 will tell the story of Australia's Aboriginal inhabitants and European settlers up to the early days of the Gold Rush and the Eureka rebellion. The next volumes will follow in 2011 and 2013.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Allen & Unwin
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781741760989
• Artikelnr.: 40375133

Autorenporträt

Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 and, as well as writing many novels, has shown an increasing interest in producing histories. His history of Irish convictism as a read-out of the problems of Ireland itself was entitled The Great Shame and was published in all the English language markets. The same was true of his later work, The Commonwealth of Thieves, which looked upon the penal origins of Australia in a way which sought to make the reader feel close to the experience of individual Aboriginals, convicts and officials. He has tried to bring the same intimacy and sense of surprise to Australians. As a novelist, his works include Bring Larks and Heroes, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, Schindler's Ark, Woman of the Inner Sea, Towards Asmara, The Widow And Her Hero. He has the won the Miles Franklin Award, the Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Book Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Scripter Award of the University of Southern California, the Mondello International Prize, the Helmerich Prize (U.S.). He holds a number of national and international honorary doctorates a