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Playmaker

by Thomas Keneally · 1987

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Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.

Genre
Georgian and 18th centuryGeorgian and 18th centuryMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
18th century18th centuryMore like thisLess of thisAustraliaAustraliaMore like thisLess of thisNew South WalesNew South WalesMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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