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The Dickens boy : a novel Cover Image Book

The Dickens boy : a novel / Thomas Keneally.

Keneally, Thomas, (author.).

Summary:

Edward Dickens, the tenth child of 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 fall out of the public eye. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982169145
  • ISBN: 1982169141
  • Physical Description: 401 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Atria Books edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in Australia in 2020 by Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399- 400).

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Subject:
Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton > Fiction.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Family > Fiction.
Immigrants > Australia > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Country life > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Secrecy.
Australia > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre:
Action and adventure fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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