A River Town
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1995. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5354
A handsome dark brown leather First Edition SIGNED by Thomas Keneally. With marbled endpapers, gold gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. Author of "Schindler's List," " Season in Purgatory," "Woman of the Inner Sea," and "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith."
Praised for its rich detail of both Irish Catholic and Australian culture, as well as for capturing the vastness of the continent, this novel, based on Keneally’s own grandfather, follows Tim Shea as he immigrates from Ireland to Australia at the beginning of the 19th century in search of freedom from class prejudice, only to encounter similar malice, challenges, and brutality in his new home.
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