Ryan Shek (International) assertion Ryan Shek i(22890231 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Killed or Sent to Australia Ryan Shek , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 150–151)

— Review of The Dickens Boy Thomas Keneally , 2020 single work novel

'Authors of fiction draw on their lives and relationships to mimic the look, touch, and feel of real human experience—so much so that a person who has lived in proximity to an author, maybe as a lover or friend or child, can sometimes find an unexpected and embarrassing audit of their own faults, abilities, and shortcomings in the author's prose. It is an uncomfortable and seldomdiscussed consequence of creating art that so closely parallels lived reality: that real people tend to recognize themselves in it. In many ways, this premise is what propels the plot of Thomas Keneally's 2020 book The Dickens Boy , a work of historical fiction that reimagines the youngest son of the literary icon Charles Dickens and his adventures through the Australian Outback.' (Introduction)

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