Bibliograph

The Dickens boy, a novel, Thomas Keneally

Type

Label

The Dickens boy, a novel, Thomas Keneally

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]- 400)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Dickens boy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1236258947

Responsibility statement

Thomas Keneally

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to a remote sheep station in New South Wales, Edward discovers that his father's fame has reached even there, as has the gossip about his father's scandalous liaison with an actress. Amid colonists, ex-convicts, local tribespeople and a handful of eligible young women, Edward, determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, strives to be his own man -- and keep secret the fact that he's read none of his father's novels. Conjuring up a life of sheep-droving, horse-racing and cricket tournaments in a community riven with tensions and prejudice, the story of Edward's adventures also affords an intimate portrait of Dickens' himself

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