The Playmaker by Keneally, Thomas - 1988

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Perennial Library. Very Good/No Dj. 1988. 1st Thus. paperback. Trade 0060971894 no stamps or names present .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Slight toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with very good wraps displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.Same author as Schindler's List. Keneally's mature fiction goes from strength to strength, finding ever new subjects to press within the vise of its historical imagination. He's now provided a brilliant fictional corollary to Robert Hughes' impressive The Fatal Shore in this portrait of convict-settled Sydney, Australia, in the late 1700's (contemporaneous with the new United States of America). An English officer in Sydney, a Lieutenant Clark, receives permission to stage a play--Farquhar's bawdy comedy, The Recruiting Officer--and to cast it out of the convict population, the wretches who, spared the gallows in London, were "transported" to nowhere to do what no one is quite yet sure. But only to juxtapose the dispossessed and disadvantaged playing roles of freedom doesn't satisfy subtle Keneally: the novel is as well a chock-full panorama of… Read More