The Dickens Boy: from the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark by Tom

Description: The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally From the Booker-winning author of Schindlers 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-achieveing 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 GuardianAn engrossing and transporting read. Financial TimesIn this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickenss tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to apply himself. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to become a man from the most diverse and toughest of men.Part of Dickens motivation was to separate these younger of his children from the Dickens family schism, where Charles had expelled his wife from the family home, keeping her sister Georgie there to run the household and taking up with the actress Ellen Tiernan.Plorn arrived in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his fathers work. After a very brief stopover he is sent out to become a gentleman stockman on a 2000 square mile station in remotest, semi-arid parts of NSW. Here he inevitably gets enmeshed with Paakantji, colonists, colonial-born, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women.Plorn did not expect he would encounter the same veneration of his father and familiarity with his work in Australia that was rampant in England. Against this backdrop, and featuring cricket tournaments, horse-racing, bushrangers, sheep droving, shifty stock and station agents, frontier wars and first encounters with Australian women we follow Plorn, and sometimes his brother Alfred, through wonderful adventures as he works to apply himself.This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour. It is a romp.____________________________________The Dickens Boy is wonderfully complex, and, like Dickenss works, deserves reading and rereading. The Canberra TimesA delightful and continuously interesting portrayal of mid-19th century life in the rolling sheep pastures of New South Wales and an acute and persuasive examination of the mystery that Charles Dickens still presents. The ScotsmanTom Keneally takes historical figures and events and reimagines them with verve, compassion and humour to give us his latest novel, The Dickens Boy. Australian Arts Review FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindlers Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindlers 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 Bettanys 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 Hitlers Pistol was awarded the ARA Historical Novel Prize. Promotional "Headline" In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. Details ISBN176089320X Format Paperback Pages 400 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 176089320X ISBN-13 9781760893200 Publication Date 2021-05-18 Place of Publication Hawthorn Country of Publication Australia Subtitle from the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindlers Ark Author Tom Keneally Publisher Penguin Random House Australia Imprint Penguin Random House Australia Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-05-17 AU Release Date 2021-05-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131999302;

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