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Synopsis
Based on a true incident, this novel is about a half-caste aborigine who rebels against the racism of the English settlers and murders several white women. He is killed, in turn, by white Australians.
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Keneally is not merely an entertainer telling a bloody and exciting story. He is also a writer of formidable skills and resources;...he has a visceral feeling for physical action and his prose conveys it powerfully."
Yardley
"Here are the trappings of 'In Cold Blood'--rural isolation, slaughter, manhunt--but the impulse, the motivations, and, most important, Keneally's highly charged and distinctive style are quite different....Keneally's account...is exciting and chilling; the battle--with human malevolence, with spiritual fear, with the remorseless natural world--is real, not the daydream stuff of, say, James Dickey's 'Deliverance', in which the problems and struggles are neat and bland....[Keneally] has blended history, psychological insight and epic adventure with great skill."
Thwaite
"Australian art has come to lean heavily on parable and myth-making. Keneally's work is strongly and successfully in that tradition."
Toulson
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