Bettany's Book

Zusatztext Like its subject! the novel is huge! magnificent Informationen zum Autor Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published more than thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark , which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List , and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith , Confederates and Gossip From The Forest , each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy , Searching for Schindler and Australians . He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney. Klappentext When Dimp Bettany, a Sydney film producer, comes into possession of her ancestor John Bettany's journals, she believes she has finally found the subject of her next masterpiece. Even her more detached sister Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, becomes intrigued as the story unfolds of how John Bettany carved out a living in the wilds of New South Wales in the 1840s, and of the internment in the notorious Female Factory of Sarah Bernard, the convict woman he was destined to meet. As John's and Sarah's paths converge, each sister finds her life cast in a new and galvanising light. Zusammenfassung An enthralling novel from Thomas Keneally, set in Australia and the Sudan, and spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas Keneally, Keneally Thomas
• Verlag: Sceptre
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.06.2001
• EAN: 9780340624753
• ISBN: 978-0-340-62475-3
• Seiten: 608
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 198 mm x 37 mm
• Serien: Coronet Paperbacks; Coronet Paperbacks
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, man booker prize; Moving; literary fiction; Pulitzer prize; powerful; compelling; costa novel winner; book of the year; Original; Insightful; modern classics; bailey’s women’s prize; thought-provoking; shortlist; longlist