Bring Larks And Heroes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the brutal crucible of a British penal colony at the edge of the known world, one soldier's conscience is pushed to its breaking point. Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally is a searing work of historical fiction set in late eighteenth-century colonial Australia, chronicling the morally fractured life of Corporal Phelim Halloran — an Irish Catholic soldier tasked with guarding convicts whose suffering mirrors his own dispossession. Torn between his duty to a corrupt colonial authority and his profound compassion for the condemned, Halloran is drawn into a conspiracy that will cost him everything, as love, loyalty, and survival collide against the unforgiving landscape of a nascent nation built on chains. Keneally, who would later achieve international renown with Schindler's Ark, here demonstrates the full power of his moral imagination, constructing a narrative that is at once intimate and epic in scope. The novel argues unflinchingly that empire is built not by heroes, but by ordinary men forced into impossible choices — and that resistance, even in its quietest forms, carries a devastating price. Rich with period detail and written in prose that is both lyrical and precise, this Miles Franklin Award-winning novel remains one of the most urgent and haunting works in the Australian literary canon, leaving the reader to wonder whether conscience, in a world designed to crush it, can ever truly be a virtue.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the brutal crucible of a British penal colony at the edge of the known world, one soldier's conscience is pushed to its breaking point. Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally is a searing work of historical fiction set in late eighteenth-century colonial Australia, chronicling the morally fractured life of Corporal Phelim Halloran — an Irish Catholic soldier tasked with guarding convicts whose suffering mirrors his own dispossession. Torn between his duty to a corrupt colonial authority and his profound compassion for the condemned, Halloran is drawn into a conspiracy that will cost him everything, as love, loyalty, and survival collide against the unforgiving landscape of a nascent nation built on chains. Keneally, who would later achieve international renown with Schindler's Ark, here demonstrates the full power of his moral imagination, constructing a narrative that is at once intimate and epic in scope. The novel argues unflinchingly that empire is built not by heroes, but by ordinary men forced into impossible choices — and that resistance, even in its quietest forms, carries a devastating price. Rich with period detail and written in prose that is both lyrical and precise, this Miles Franklin Award-winning novel remains one of the most urgent and haunting works in the Australian literary canon, leaving the reader to wonder whether conscience, in a world designed to crush it, can ever truly be a virtue.