The Place At Whitton (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: price clipped; worn along the edges; no major tears. Pages: Moderate foxing on prelims and book block. Binding remains tight; boards - square and clean.
A taut and morally charged thriller from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, The Place at Whitton announces Thomas Keneally's arrival as a writer of extraordinary psychological depth and narrative precision. Set within the claustrophobic world of a Catholic seminary in rural Australia, the novel chronicles a young seminarian's harrowing confrontation with sin, guilt, and the suffocating weight of institutional faith, as a suspicious death begins to unravel the carefully maintained order of the sacred community around him. Keneally's prose is spare yet richly atmospheric, drawing the reader into a world where spiritual crisis and human fallibility collide with devastating consequence. Written with the moral seriousness and unflinching candour that would come to define his later masterworks, this early novel illustrates his lifelong preoccupation with conscience, complicity, and the darkness that can fester beneath the surface of devout and ordered lives. A work that rewards the patient reader with mounting dread — The Place at Whitton leaves one questioning just how much truth any institution can afford to reveal.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Cassell, London
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: price clipped; worn along the edges; no major tears. Pages: Moderate foxing on prelims and book block. Binding remains tight; boards - square and clean.
A taut and morally charged thriller from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, The Place at Whitton announces Thomas Keneally's arrival as a writer of extraordinary psychological depth and narrative precision. Set within the claustrophobic world of a Catholic seminary in rural Australia, the novel chronicles a young seminarian's harrowing confrontation with sin, guilt, and the suffocating weight of institutional faith, as a suspicious death begins to unravel the carefully maintained order of the sacred community around him. Keneally's prose is spare yet richly atmospheric, drawing the reader into a world where spiritual crisis and human fallibility collide with devastating consequence. Written with the moral seriousness and unflinching candour that would come to define his later masterworks, this early novel illustrates his lifelong preoccupation with conscience, complicity, and the darkness that can fester beneath the surface of devout and ordered lives. A work that rewards the patient reader with mounting dread — The Place at Whitton leaves one questioning just how much truth any institution can afford to reveal.