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y separately published work icon Bring Larks and Heroes single work   novel   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Bring Larks and Heroes
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'This novel is set in a remote British penal colony in the 1790s. It gives an insight into the settlement of hungry transports and corrupt soldiers, and tells the story of Corporal Phelim Halloran, and the demands made on him - by superior officers and, most often, by his conscience.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)

Adaptations

y separately published work icon Halloran's Little Boat : A Play Based on the Novel 'Bring Larks and Heroes' Thomas Keneally , 1966 Harmondsworth Ringwood : Penguin , 1975 Z863393 1966 single work drama

Notes

  • Dedication: To Judith who nursed this poor herd of chapters to pasture.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Cassell Australia , 1967 .
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      Extent: 247p.
      Reprinted: 1967 , 1968
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Belmont Books ,       1967 .
      Extent: 296p.
      Reprinted: 1972 Includes author's note.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Sun Books , 1968 .
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      Extent: 230p.
      Reprinted: 1970 ISBN 0725100605 , 1972 , 1974 , 1976 , 1978 , 1984
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Viking ,       1968 .
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      Extent: 247p.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Quartet ,       1973 .
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      Extent: 230p.
      ISBN: 0704320347
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1988 .
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      Extent: 247p.
      ISBN: 0140109293
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2012 .
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      Extent: 384p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 26 April 2012
      • Introduction by Geordie Williamson
      ISBN: 9781921922237
      Series: y separately published work icon Text Classics Text Publishing (publisher), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2012- Z1851461 2012 series - publisher novel 'Great books by great Australian storytellers.' (Text website.)
Alternative title: Straffekolonien
Language: Norwegian
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Untitled Charles Brady , single work review
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally , 1967 single work novel
The Art in Fiction : Thomas Keneally Paul Sharrad , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 58 no. 2 2023; (p. 280–292)

'The article picks up references to novelist Thomas Keneally’s interest in painting and tracks his uses of artists and painting in selected fiction. Visual art supplies style and thematic depth to Bring Larks and Heroes, is integral to the complexity underpinning the murder-mystery of A Victim of the Aurora, allows narrative perspective and structural coherence in Confederates, and connects with elements in The Daughters of Mars that echo the novelist’s positioning of his work across both Europe and Australia, and between commercial and literary fiction.' (Publication abstract)
The Novel Road to the Global South : Australian Fiction, International Exposure and the Transnational Politics of Disadvantage Sascha Morrell , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
A National (Diasporic?) Living Treasure : Thomas Keneally Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 20-27) Although Thomas Keneally is firmly located as a national figure, his international literary career and his novels’ inspection of colonial exile, Aboriginal alienation, and movements of people throughout history reflect aspects of diasporic experience, while pushing the term itself into wider meaning of the transnational.
'Gothic Splendours'? : Recent Tasmanian Historical Fiction Peter Pierce , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 20-26) Peter Pierce investigates recent 'Gothic' historical fiction set in Tasmania.
Keneally's Triumph Geordie Williamson , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 May 2012; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally , 1967 single work novel Williamson re-assesses Keneally's novel on the occasion of its re-issue by Text Publishing.
Untitled Chad Parkhill , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 14 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally , 1967 single work novel
New Novels John McLaren , 1968 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 38 1968; (p. 41-43)
— Review of A Wild Ass of a Man Barry Oakley , 1967 single work novel ; Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally , 1967 single work novel ; Dynasty Tony Morphett , 1967 single work novel
Untitled Shirley Despoja , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 December 1967; (p. 14)
— Review of The Games Hugh Atkinson , 1967 single work novel ; Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally , 1967 single work novel
Untitled R. Burns , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: Nation , 18 November 1967; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally , 1967 single work novel
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— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 7 no. 1 1995-1996; (p. 19-27)
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— Appears in: Thomas Keneally : A Celebration 2006; (p. 23-28)
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels Xavier Pons , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 29 no. 1 2006; (p. 47-58) Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 197-210) 'The paper focuses on scenes from three Australian novels ... . Through an analysis of the representation of sexual intercourse by the three novelists, the paper highlights the sense of strangeness associated with the postcolonial, born out of the colonists' feeling that they do not truly belong to their adopted land and must force themselves upon it. Sex, which can be an expression of love, here degenerates into lust, violence or parody. It becomes an expression of the unnerving alienation which overcomes Europeans in a postcolonial context. Sex here as a struggle for domination is a paradigm of the perverted human relations which are inherent in the postcolonial condition. In his own fashion, and through a variety of narrative modes, each of the three (male) novelists illustrates the unbearable strangeness of being in an alien land.' (47)
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