The Great Shame
A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New
$36.49
- Paperback
784 pages
- Release Date
3 September 1999
Summary
The eagerly-awaited paperback of an incredible work of history, social injustice and survival.
’…a grandly conceived and prodigiously researched homage to his Irish forebears’ - The Age
’… the range and coverage of this material is impressive … his zest is infectious’ - Sydney Morning Herald
’… engaging and meticulously compiled’ - Australian Financial Review
In the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. The Great Shame is Thomas Keneally’s astoni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091840617 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0091840619 |
| Author: | Tom Keneally |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 784 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 1999 |
| Weight: | 846g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 154mm x 52mm |
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About The Author
Tom Keneally
Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler’s Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List. His non-fiction includes the memoir Searching for Schindler and Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel. His fiction includes Shame and the Captives, The Daughters of Mars, The Widow and Her Hero, An Angel in Australia and Bettany’s Book. His novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers for the Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award. In 2022, his novel Corporal Hitler’s Pistol was awarded the ARA Historical Novel Prize.
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