Publish Date |
December 01, 2020 |
Category |
Fiction / Historical / Ancient Fiction / Biographical |
Price |
$25.00 |
ISBN: 9781982121044
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: December 01, 2020
"Uncovers a rich hidden seam in Australian history...Passionate and heartfelt.”"Vigorous, bighearted and terrifically direct.”“[A] brave and complex book.”“Tackles meaty themes and tricky parallels . . . Wonderfully imaginative.” “This is a story of how to die but also of how to live . . . Consistently engaging, provocative and original . . . Keneally’s art is to make the profound accessible. The important is rendered seamlessly . . . The simple message is that there is a communality to the human experience that spans forty-two thousand years.”“A blunt meditation on last things, but still electric with life, passion and appetite...The account of two exceptional men who have lived ordinary lives: ordinary in the sense that they may be viewed as universal, as experiences of what it is to be a man, with all the virtues and humiliations that attend that station, across time and space...[An] intensely personal, hugely inventive and often moving novel.” "A rather brave book. This impressive sketch of ghostly affinities between a man who makes images at once artistic and real out of the life he records and shapes, and another who conjures and kills and wills himself on the tightrope of justice and mercy in a time that Keneally is very adept at animating.""This is, charmingly, a book by an old man about two other old men, all three acutely aware of mortality and each making the old man's declaration: "I will talk how I want to talk for as long as I choose about whatever I want to talk about." It's quite glorious really. The whole book is a hymn to idealism, and to human development."