Gossip From the Forest - Hardcover

Keneally, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151367051 ISBN 13: 9780151367054

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976

Synopsis

Short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1975.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published 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. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, and Shame and the Captives. 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.

Review:

I was intrigued, excited and sure that the vivid snapshots of private-versus-public emotion would coalesce into a moving, meaningful image * The Sunday Times * As fiction it is absorbing and as history it achieves the kind of significance earned only by sympathy acting on deep knowledge...Keneally's book belongs...with those like Solzhenitsyn's AUGUST 1914, books that delineate the past in sympathetic depth and so urge the reader to enter it * New York Times Book Review * Extremely gripping, as well as important historical fiction * New Statesman *

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0151367051
• ISBN 13: 9780151367054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220