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Dedication: To my friend Jim Bowler, and to Mungo Man, 42,000 years old, who found each other on the shore of Lake Mungo in 1974.
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- Also dyslexic edition
- Also large print.
- Also braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Tom Keneally : Two Old Men Dying
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 November 2018;'Tom Keneally has been at the game of writing novels for a long time now. Although he has always been an uneven writer, the best of his work is made to last. If 50 years ago his Catholic Church novel Three Cheers for the Paraclete – with a hero who according to legend was based on that dashing and personable priest Edmund Campion – seemed like a thinnish enactment of a bright idea, there had already been Bring Larks and Heroes, which made Keneally look like the natural successor to Patrick White and which is a passionate dramatic work that called out for comparison to The Crucible or Camus’ The Plague.' (Introduction)
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Tom Keneally : Two Old Men Dying
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 November 2018;'Tom Keneally has been at the game of writing novels for a long time now. Although he has always been an uneven writer, the best of his work is made to last. If 50 years ago his Catholic Church novel Three Cheers for the Paraclete – with a hero who according to legend was based on that dashing and personable priest Edmund Campion – seemed like a thinnish enactment of a bright idea, there had already been Bring Larks and Heroes, which made Keneally look like the natural successor to Patrick White and which is a passionate dramatic work that called out for comparison to The Crucible or Camus’ The Plague.' (Introduction)