02890cam a2200361 4500 759834250 TxAuBib 20211027120000.0 210206s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982169145 hbk. $28.00 1982169141 hbk. $28.00 (OCoLC)1236258947 YDX eng rda YDX BDX CNNWP HQD Y$5 HOT HBP IHY UAP IUK FMA IK2 VP@ OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO ILC CHY IMT OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Keneally, Thomas, author. The Dickens boy [Book] : a novel / Thomas Keneally. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2022. 401 pages ; 24 cm. Originally published in Australia in 2020 by Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 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. Edward Dickens, tenth child of England's most famous 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 fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even here Edward encounters the same rabid veneration of his father that exists in England. But Edward has a secret: he has never read a single word of his father's beloved writing. 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. -- adapted from jacket. 20211027. Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Fiction. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Family Fiction. Country life Fiction. Families Fiction. Immigrants Australia History 19th century Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. British Australia Fiction. Australia History 19th century Fiction. RV8