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The Dickens Boy

The Dickens Boy

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by Tom Keneally
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 31/03/2020

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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.

The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable 'to apply himself' to school or life. So aged 16, he is sent, as his brother Alfred was before him, to Australia.

Plorn arrives in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his father's work. He is sent out to a two-thousand-square-mile station in remotest New South Wales to learn to become a man from the most diverse and toughest of companions.

Plorn, unexpectedly, encounters the same veneration of his father and familiarity with Dickens's work in Australia as was rampant in England. Against this backdrop – featuring cricket tournaments, horse-racing, bush rangers, sheep droving, shifty stock and station agents, frontier wars and first encounters with Australian women – Plorn meets extraordinary people and wonderful adventures as he works to prove himself.

This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour.

ISBN:
9780655660682
9780655660682
Category:
Historical fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
31-03-2020
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
11
Dimensions (mm):
134x146mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Tom Keneally

Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler's 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 (shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award), An Angel in Australia and Bettany's 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. The People's Train was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia division.

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