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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
(Paperback, 1983)
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Author: Thomas Keneally
Based on a true incident, this novel is about a half-caste aborigine who rebels against the racism o...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140069739
ISBN-13: 9780140069730
Jan 1983
Publisher: Penguin Books
178 pages
Language: English |
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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.
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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