The Dickens boy : a novel /
Keneally, Thomas,
The Dickens boy : a novel / - First Atria Books hardcover edition. - 401 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-400).
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.
9781982169145 1982169141
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Family--Fiction.
Country life--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--History--Australia--19th century--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
PR9619.3
813.54
The Dickens boy : a novel / - First Atria Books hardcover edition. - 401 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-400).
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.
9781982169145 1982169141
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Family--Fiction.
Country life--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--History--Australia--19th century--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
PR9619.3
813.54