Keneally, Thomas (Vol. 5) - Keneally, Thomas 1935–
Keneally, Thomas 1935–
Keneally, an Australian Catholic novelist of Irish ancestry, has written eight novels. His most recent novel, Blood Red, Sister Rose, will undoubtedly establish his international reputation.
A Dutiful Daughter is a disquieting novel and in many instances a moving one—qualities which testify, above all, to Thomas Keneally's skill in using to his advantage a subject which in less capable hands might have looked merely grotesque, or even ridiculous. Not that the grotesque is in short supply—for two of the four principal characters have been afflicted by a horrific physical metamorphosis which has left them half animal, half human.
Barbara and Damian Glover have kept secret their parents' sudden, inexplicable change into what might best be described as bovine centaurs. Damian, now at university and beginning to find a life outside the terrible emotional claustrophobia in which his sister remains trapped,...
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