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A River Town
by Thomas Keneally
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Plume (1996-05-01)
ISBN: 0452276551
EAN: 9780452276550
Dewy Decimal #: 823
Paperback: 336 pages
SKU: 05357
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: First edition book, in very good condition
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination toward prejudice. Reprint. NYT.
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Customer Reviews
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my favorite book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-12-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have never written an online review, but I am on somewhat of a crusade to get people to read this book. So many dramatic things happen; a fatal accident, a near drowning, an epidemic, and the sheriff's ongoing quest to find out the identity of the woman who died in a botched abortion whose preserved head is kept in a jar, but the overall feeling in the book is that we are reading the story of simple, decent people.
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wonderful
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-03-18
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Any work by Thomas Keneally is a treasure trove of human emotion and character in the most diverse of locations. He has written no 2 books alike= from tackling the civil war in "Conferedates", to the Booker-prize winning "Schindler's List" (he is the uncredited author and discoverer of this amazing tale, though America tends to credit Steven Spielberg erroneously), to modern drama in "Woman of the Inner Sea"... pick up any of his works and you are in for a rare treat. "A River Town" is his most personal work, based upon his grandfather's life, and a moving portrait of life at the turn of the century in s young bush town in Australia. It is similarly an immigrant's tale, and most of all, the tale of a good man. Beautifully written, this is a wonderful summer book.I am always surprised that Keneally doesn't get the recognition he so greatly deserves- this is one of the truly great authors of the 20th and 21st century.
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turn of the century Australian frontier classic
Rating  (4)
Date: 1997-10-07
7 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
Keneally is such an engaging writer that you quickly get caught up in the human drama of the Australian frontier with flawed people and hardships, much less the ethnic conflicts between Whites and Asians, and class conflicts among the class conscious English immigrants. Not a very satisfying ending makes me think this is probably based on a true story. A grand story by a great story teller, with human drama and difficult choices.
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