{"product_id":"2026100009255-secondhand-blood-red-sister-rose-signed","title":"Blood Red, Sister Rose (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: unclipped dj. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mud and fire of fifteenth-century France, a teenage peasant girl hears the voice of God and rides to war — Thomas Keneally's Blood Red, Sister Rose is a visceral, unsparing reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc, stripping away centuries of sanctified myth to reveal a young woman of raw, bewildering courage. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Hundred Years' War, the novel chronicles Joan's extraordinary journey from the obscurity of Domrémy to the smoke-choked battlefields of Orléans, presenting her not as a beatific icon but as a flesh-and-blood soldier whose divine conviction both empowers and isolates her.\n\nKeneally, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, employs a muscular, unflinching prose style that refuses romanticism, instead grounding the supernatural in the deeply human. The novel argues that faith, in its purest and most dangerous form, is indistinguishable from obsession, and it is this moral ambiguity that elevates the work far above the conventions of historical fiction. Rich in period detail and psychological intensity, Blood Red, Sister Rose stands as a landmark of 20th-century historical literature — and once you enter Joan's world, you will question everything you thought you knew about saints, soldiers, and the stories we tell to make them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219867705563,"sku":"2026100009255-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/48db622e-21c6-47a9-bee7-56ecae420743.png?v=1788482955","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009255-secondhand-blood-red-sister-rose-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}