TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keneally,Thomas
TI  - The Dickens boy: a novel 
SN  - 198216915X
AV  - PR9619.3.K46 D54 2022
U1  - 823/.914A823.3 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Washington Square Press/Atria
KW  - Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. By reimagining the tale of a fascinating yet little-known figure in history, this rollicking, high-spirited tale offers penetrating insights into Colonialism and the fate of Australia's indigenous people, and a wonderfully intimate portrait of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eye of his exiled son
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