Homebush Boy

Paperback

Main Details

Title Homebush Boy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Keneally
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780340647288
ClassificationsDewey:823
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Imprint Sceptre
Publication Date 20 June 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

Magical * Independent on Sunday * Keneally is particularly good on the parental relationships . . . his disarming lightness of touch reveals self-analysis of a high order * The Times * Fascinating * Time Out * A delightful book * Daily Express * A wonderful memoir [which] evokes Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . Buy it and feel, for once, better * Literary Review * A wonderful little classic . . . The Catcher In The Rye meets the language of Dylan Thomas * The Sunday Times *