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In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing the spirit of the times, this is the mesmerising tale of a flawed hero whose stubborn integrity is nearly his undoing.
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A River Town, Thomas Keneally
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- 1995
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- Title
- A River Town
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Thomas Keneally
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Publisher
- 1995
- ISBN10
- 0340624744
- ISBN13
- 9780340624746
- Category
- World prose, Historical prose
- Description
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing the spirit of the times, this is the mesmerising tale of a flawed hero whose stubborn integrity is nearly his undoing.