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Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

By Tom Keneally and Thomas Keneally
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Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally is set in a brutal penal colony during the late 18th century. The story follows an Irish convict and soldier, ensnared in a world dictated by corruption and injustice, as he navigates his moral struggles. With themes of love, sacrifice, and survival, it explores the harsh realities of life in a remote and oppressive settlement.
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Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

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At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat.

A South Pacific penal colony in the late eighteenth century. An honest man named Phelim Halloran and Ann Rush, his secret bride. Poet, soldier, lover and grand innocent, Halloran must confront his destiny in a place of tyranny and searing horror.

Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally is a gripping narrative set in a time of anguish and brutality. Follow Halloran as he navigates the harsh realities of his world, balancing love and duty amidst overwhelming challenges.

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ISBN: 9781921922237

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 275g

Pages: 247

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About the Author

Thomas Keneally published his first book The Place at Whitton in 1964. He won the Miles Franklin Award in consecutive years for his novels Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968). He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times before being the first Australian ever to win it, in 1982, for Schindler's Ark. His novel The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was made into a film by Fred Schepisi. Thomas Keneally has written over thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as plays and essays. He is an ardent Republican and was the founding chairman of the Australian Republican Movement.

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