A River Town - Hardcover

Keneally, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385476965 ISBN 13: 9780385476966

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 1995

Synopsis

Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's List. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

From the Publisher:

By the best-selling author of Schindler's List, the moving story of a man who moves his family from the harsh poverty of British-controlled Ireland at the end of the last century, hoping to find new freedom in Australia. Instead, he discovers a different but equally stifling social order -- and a moral challenge that will force him to transcend the barriers of race and class.

About the Author:

Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's Ark, Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, Playmaker, Woman of the Inner Sea, and A River Town. He is most recently the author of the biography American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385476965
• ISBN 13: 9780385476966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324