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The Playmaker Paperback - 1993

by Thomas Keneally

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Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.

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Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.

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FIRST Ralph heard again how Harry had-one evening in the settlement's first days-discovered Duckling's absence from her tent across the stream.

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  • Title The Playmaker
  • Author Thomas Keneally
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Touchstone
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books, New York
  • Publication date 1993-10-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780671885113 / 0671885111
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.72 x 0.86 in (21.54 x 14.53 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87013127
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-three novels since, most recently Crimes of the Father, Napoleon's Last Island, Shame and the Captives, and the New York Times bestselling The Daughters of Mars. He is also the author of Schindler's List, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of nonfiction, including his boyhood memoir Homebush Boy, The Commonwealth of Thieves, and Searching for Schindler. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney, Australia.
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