Family Madness Counter Display by Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

Obviously intrigued by a minor character in his previous nonfiction title, The Great Shame, Keneally has written a largely fascinating biography of Tammany Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Keneally offers up a new volume in the popular Penguin Lives series of short biographies. Some writers appear to benefit from the forced brevity. Keneally, however, seems inhibited and constrained Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of exceptional importance that hasn't received a Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

In this gripping political allegory, the author of Schindler's List examines a more contemporary instance of people trying to survive in the ethical Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Keneally (Schindler's List ) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's List was the basis for the Spielberg movie of the same title. Now Keneally retraces his steps in writing the book, Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Subtitled ``A Novel of Africa,'' this impassioned new work by the Australian author of Schindler's List straddles the boundary between fiction and reportage so adeptly that it almost deserves a Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

``This impassioned new work by the Australian author of Schindler's List straddles the boundary between fiction and reportage so adeptly that it almost deserves a category of its own,'' proclaimed PW Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Palestinian terrorists hijack a jet en route from New York to Frankfurt, among whose passengers are an Australian aboriginal dance troupe and their white Australian tour manager. Divergent cultural Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

A jet carrying an Australian aboriginal dance troupe and its white tour manager is hijacked. Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

A mesmerizing novel based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industralist who saved and succored more than 1000 Jews from the Nazis at enormous financial and emotional expense. Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Keneally, who won England's Booker Prize for Schindler's List, here offers an intricately constructed, labyrinthine tale that unfolds on three levels. A traditional third-person narration chronicles Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

The production in 1789 of a prisoners' performance of The Recruiting Officer provides the framework upon which the Australian author of Schindler's List and A Family Madness hangs this rollicking, Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Australian novelist Keneally ( Schindler's List ) knows a great deal about the American Southwest. In a leisurely ramble through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, he proves himself perfectly Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

The latest effort from Booker Prize-winning Australian author Keneally (Schindler's List, The Playmaker , etc.) is one of his best. He sets it on native turf and uses glimpses of his homeland's Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Australia at the turn of the century is the setting for Keneally's 21st novel, surely his most masterfully crafted, morally searching and compassionate work. Reflecting a keen and ironic awareness of Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Keneally prefaced his Booker Prize-winning Schindler's List by noting that he had chosen to tell the true story of Oskar Schindler in novel form partially because ""the novelist's craft is the only Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

The horrific butcher’s bill of WWI trench fighting, which took a toll not only on the wounded soldiers but on the doctors and nurses who tended to them, is at the heart of this moving epic novel from Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

The author of Schindler%E2%80%99s List again novelizes a small yet revealing event from World War II. Based on the 1944 Cowra breakout in New South Wales, Australia, the novel interweaves Continue reading »

Thomas Keneally

Australian author Keneally (The Daughters of Mars) once again uses fiction to illuminate a little-known aspect of history. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the English-governed Continue reading »

Family Madness Counter Display

Thomas Keneally. Penguin Books, $55.6 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-14-778113-0