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Alternative title: Jacko : The Great Intruder
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Jacko
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'Is America ready for Jacko Emptor?

'Jacko Emptor, Northern Territory born, brings Australian wilderness to the television screens of America. Is American ready for him? Is he ready for America? Jacko, investigative reporter, exploits American innocence to break into living rooms and penetrate the heart's secrets. But these secrets make their claim on him too, especially the secrets of Sunny Sondquist, a child-woman missing in the American heartland.

'Follow Jacko as he exposes evil, falls from grace and shows how television makes gods of some and fools of many.'(Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: Gordon Elliott kindly told me many tales of TV Gothic in America. Some of them appear transmuted in this account.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Heinemann Australia , 1993 .
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      Extent: 316p.
      Written as: Tom Keneally
      ISBN: 085561529X
    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Mandarin , 1993 .
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      Extent: 406p.
      Reprinted: 1994
      ISBN: 1863303545
Alternative title: Jacko, the Great Intruder
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Hodder and Stoughton ,       1994 .
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      Extent: 316p.
      ISBN: 0340590181
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sceptre ,       1995 .
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      Extent: 361p.
      ISBN: 0340632437 (pbk)
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Works about this Work

Keneally the Mapper : Keneally’s Settings and Australian National Identity Xiaojin Zhou , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: From Fixity to Fluidity : The Theme of Identity in Thomas Keneally's Fiction 2009; (p. 85-93) 'Keneally is not known as a pastoralist or a romanticist. In terms of the Australian land, his uniqueness lies not in picturesque descriptions of the landscape, but in outlining a larger framework in which to consider the Australian sense of place, and in searching for possible communications between man and land, upon which a sound identity, both personal and national, can be established. ' (85)
Keneally Returns to Form Tracy Ware , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 146-147)
— Review of A River Town Thomas Keneally , 1995 single work novel ; Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
"The Best Tricks are in the Book": An Interview with Tom Keneally Brian Musgrove , Christopher Lee , 1994 single work interview
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 1 1994; (p. 147-157)
Untitled Bruce King , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Today , Autumn vol. 68 no. 4 1994; (p. 879-880)
— Review of Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
Slapdash Fun in Keneally's Wacko Jacko Patricia Rolfe , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 January-1 February vol. 116 no. 5905 1994; (p. 152)
— Review of Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
Ockers' Bon Voyage Susan Geason , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 17 October 1993; (p. 124)
— Review of Au Pair Fiona McGregor , 1993 single work novel ; Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
Keneally Returns to Form Tracy Ware , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 146-147)
— Review of A River Town Thomas Keneally , 1995 single work novel ; Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
Forecasts Peter Pierce , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 73 no. 1040 1993; (p. 34-35)
— Review of Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
A Corroboree of Manners and Mores Peter Pierce , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 October 1993; (p. 12A)
— Review of Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
Out of a Cherrypicker Paul Kane , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 October 1993; (p. 8)
— Review of Jacko Thomas Keneally , 1993 single work novel
"The Best Tricks are in the Book": An Interview with Tom Keneally Brian Musgrove , Christopher Lee , 1994 single work interview
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 1 1994; (p. 147-157)
Booker Prize Winner with the Common Touch Larry Schwartz , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 24 October 1993; (p. 9)
Keneally Creates a Crocodile Dundee with Brains Christopher Richards , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1993; (p. 9)
It's One Novel after Another 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 May 1993; (p. 37)
Keneally the Mapper : Keneally’s Settings and Australian National Identity Xiaojin Zhou , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: From Fixity to Fluidity : The Theme of Identity in Thomas Keneally's Fiction 2009; (p. 85-93) 'Keneally is not known as a pastoralist or a romanticist. In terms of the Australian land, his uniqueness lies not in picturesque descriptions of the landscape, but in outlining a larger framework in which to consider the Australian sense of place, and in searching for possible communications between man and land, upon which a sound identity, both personal and national, can be established. ' (85)
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
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