{"product_id":"a-river-town-isbn-9780452276550","title":"A River Town","description":"By the author of \u003ci\u003eSchlinder’s List \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWoman of the Inner Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The time is the start of the century. The place is a seemingly peaceful Australian town on the banks of the Macleay River in New South Wales. Here Tim Shea has come from distant Ireland to build a new life free of the crippling poverty and bleak horizons of the past. But he finds that this land of opportunity is a land of perilous choices. As a good man in a less than perfect world, he also finds that the price of goodness can be painfully high. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Keneally has created one of the most wonderfully realized characters in modern fiction, forced to confront questions of duty and desire, race and sex, class and caste, politics and religion, in a town that becomes a vividly moving microcosm of humanity’s strengths and weaknesses, tragedies and triumphs. \u003ci\u003eA River Town\u003c\/i\u003e is engrossing, funny, and touching – vintage Keneally. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A novel of a time with moral question disturbingly like our own . . . a fictional world at once harsh and sensuous and supremely engaging to read about.” – \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A wonderful piece of writing, a joyously exact and haunting feat of the imagination . . . crammed with magnificent portraits . . . A River Town turns steadily into a chilling and suspenseful mystery, as absorbing a page-turner as this master story-teller has ever written . . . It is the best book of the year.” – \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003eThomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels \u003cb\u003eSchindler's Ark\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eConfederates\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eGossip from the Forest\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePlaymaker\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eWoman of the Inner Sea\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eA River Town\u003c\/b\u003e. He is most recently the author of the biography \u003cb\u003eAmerican Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300675375333,"sku":"NP9780452276550","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452276550.jpg?v=1767720757","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-river-town-isbn-9780452276550","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}