The Dickens Boy
from the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark
$24.26
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2021
Summary
From the Booker-winning author of Schindler’s Ark, a compelling and spirited novel about Charles Dickens’ son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.
In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieving children tarnishing your reputation at home, you sent them to the colonies. At least that is what Charles Dickens did with two of his boys. (And Trollope did it too.)
‘Always a first-rate storyteller of a traditional kind.’ - The Guard…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760893200 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176089320X |
| Author: | Tom Keneally |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 27mm |
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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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