Homebush Boy SIGNED FIRST EDITION, RARE AUSTRALIAN ORIGINAL PUBLICATION

Keneally, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0855616555 / ISBN 13: 9780855616557

Published by William Heinemann Australia, 1995

About this Item

A fine first printing of the elusive original Australian printing in a likewise dust wrapper. Just a hint of tanning, {normally much heavier}, otherwise an unread gift condition first, SIGNED by the Booker winning author to the title page BOXED DESPATCH: OVERSEAS AIR ONLY.

Seller Inventory # ABE-18065268455

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Homebush Boy SIGNED FIRST EDITION, RARE AUSTRALIAN ORIGINAL PUBLICATION
• Publisher: William Heinemann Australia
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855616555
• ISBN 13: 9780855616557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

As a schoolboy in suburban Sydney in 1952, Tom Keneally was a Romantic. He had visions of following in his hero Chatterton's poetic footsteps. He dreamt of triumphing on the running track or rugby field. He had hopes of winning the heart of the beautiful but aloof Bernadette Curran. The one role he did not foresee himself playing was priest, until the momentous day when Bernadette announced her intention of becoming a nun. In this memoir, Keneally conjures up his youthful self and those who influenced his life. It provides an insight into the future novelist, and an evocation of adolescence that is as funny as it is poignant.

About the Author

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published twenty-nine 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 Widow And her Hero, The People's Train and The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013. 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.