Flying Hero Class - Softcover

Tom Keneally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340566752 ISBN 13: 9780340566756

Publisher: Hodder Headline Australia, 1992

Synopsis

When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this riveting and thought-provoking novel.

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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.

From Library Journal

A troupe of Australian aboriginal dancers is flying from New York to Frankfurt on the last leg of a world tour when their jetliner is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, and Frank McCloud their manager is identified as an enemy of the people and sentenced to death. In a chilling account of the next 48 hours Keneally relates blow-by-blow the hijackers' plot to intimidate, demoralize, and manipulate the minds of a plane load of people. The minds of the terrorists, the victims, the Barramatjara dancers, the pilot, and selected passengers are laid bare as crisis after crisis occurs in the microcosm of the jetliner suspended in time over the Atlantic. The author's command of his topic is superb, and his technique of tempering suspense with humor and loathing with understanding sheds new levels of meaning on an often misunderstood act. A recommended purchase from an author who never repeats himself. Keneally's The Playmaker was one of LJ 's "Best Books of 1987." Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/90.
- Thomas Kilpatrick, Southern Illiois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Headline Australia
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0340566752
• ISBN 13: 9780340566756
• Binding: Paperback