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The Office of Innocence
Thomas Keneally
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Description for The Office of Innocence
Paperback. Keneally at his powerful best, with the gripping tale of a priest and a serial killer in World War II Australia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy. Covers and page edges showing some shelfwear, remains in good condition
Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an impressionable young priest, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he becomes entangled with an attractive married woman, a ménage a trois, and a charismatic American sergeant.
Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an impressionable young priest, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he becomes entangled with an attractive married woman, a ménage a trois, and a charismatic American sergeant.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340624760
SKU
KSG0009114
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Ref
99-1
About Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published more than 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. He has also ... Read more
Reviews for The Office of Innocence
The gripping work of an author at the height of his powers
The Times
An immensely subtle study of the bad fit between moral systems and real life
The Sunday Times
[Its] great strengths lie in its evocation of Australia at a particularly turbid period of its history, and in its characterisation of ordinary people faced ... Read more
The Times
An immensely subtle study of the bad fit between moral systems and real life
The Sunday Times
[Its] great strengths lie in its evocation of Australia at a particularly turbid period of its history, and in its characterisation of ordinary people faced ... Read more