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'Is America ready for Jacko Emptor?
'Jacko Emptor, Northern Territory born, brings Australian wilderness to the television screens of America. Is American ready for him? Is he ready for America? Jacko, investigative reporter, exploits American innocence to break into living rooms and penetrate the heart's secrets. But these secrets make their claim on him too, especially the secrets of Sunny Sondquist, a child-woman missing in the American heartland.
'Follow Jacko as he exposes evil, falls from grace and shows how television makes gods of some and fools of many.'(Publication summary)
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Author's note: Gordon Elliott kindly told me many tales of TV Gothic in America. Some of them appear transmuted in this account.
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Keneally the Mapper : Keneally’s Settings and Australian National Identity
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— Appears in: From Fixity to Fluidity : The Theme of Identity in Thomas Keneally's Fiction 2009; (p. 85-93) 'Keneally is not known as a pastoralist or a romanticist. In terms of the Australian land, his uniqueness lies not in picturesque descriptions of the landscape, but in outlining a larger framework in which to consider the Australian sense of place, and in searching for possible communications between man and land, upon which a sound identity, both personal and national, can be established. ' (85) -
Keneally Returns to Form
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— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 146-147)
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Slapdash Fun in Keneally's Wacko Jacko
1994
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Ockers' Bon Voyage
1993
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 17 October 1993; (p. 124)
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1995
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review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 146-147)
— Review of A River Town 1995 single work novel ; Jacko 1993 single work novel -
Forecasts
1993
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— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 73 no. 1040 1993; (p. 34-35)
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A Corroboree of Manners and Mores
1993
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 October 1993; (p. 12A)
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Out of a Cherrypicker
1993
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 October 1993; (p. 8)
— Review of Jacko 1993 single work novel -
"The Best Tricks are in the Book": An Interview with Tom Keneally
Brian Musgrove
,
Christopher Lee
,
1994
single work
interview
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 1 1994; (p. 147-157) -
Booker Prize Winner with the Common Touch
1993
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 24 October 1993; (p. 9) -
Keneally Creates a Crocodile Dundee with Brains
1993
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— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1993; (p. 9) -
It's One Novel after Another
1993
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Keneally the Mapper : Keneally’s Settings and Australian National Identity
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: From Fixity to Fluidity : The Theme of Identity in Thomas Keneally's Fiction 2009; (p. 85-93) 'Keneally is not known as a pastoralist or a romanticist. In terms of the Australian land, his uniqueness lies not in picturesque descriptions of the landscape, but in outlining a larger framework in which to consider the Australian sense of place, and in searching for possible communications between man and land, upon which a sound identity, both personal and national, can be established. ' (85)
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New York (City),
New York (State),
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Northern Territory,
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California,
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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