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Flying Hero Class
Thomas Keneally
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Description for Flying Hero Class
Paperback. 'Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat' (The Sunday Times). Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this riveting and thought-provoking novel.
When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this riveting and thought-provoking novel.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340560099
SKU
KAK0011185
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-one novels since. They include Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates and Gossip From The Forest, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, Shame and the Captives and Crimes of the Father. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy, Searching for Schindler and Australians. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.
Reviews for Flying Hero Class
Thomas Keneally has a keen eye for out-of-the-way cultural juxtapositions. Along with it goes an energetically eclectic imagination . . . out of the atmosphere on a beleaguered aircraft, he generates stifling suspense
The Sunday Times
The reader's anxiety is awoken soon after take-off and is kept to a high pitch throughout
The Times
A smooth and elevated entertainment
Independent
A fast, memorable read . . . when we look at the century in retrospect, he will emerge as one of the great writers
Literary Review
A novel of great scope, intelligence and humanity
The Scotsman
Enthralling . . . ranks with Keneally's Booker-winning best
Daily Mail
Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat . . . by the time the narrative puts its breaks on, you find he has navigated his fast-moving thriller over an impressive amount of thematic territory
The Sunday Times
As an intellectual piece of suspense, Flying Hero Class can hardly be surpassed
Observer
Once you start reading, you can't put it down
Guardian
The Sunday Times
The reader's anxiety is awoken soon after take-off and is kept to a high pitch throughout
The Times
A smooth and elevated entertainment
Independent
A fast, memorable read . . . when we look at the century in retrospect, he will emerge as one of the great writers
Literary Review
A novel of great scope, intelligence and humanity
The Scotsman
Enthralling . . . ranks with Keneally's Booker-winning best
Daily Mail
Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat . . . by the time the narrative puts its breaks on, you find he has navigated his fast-moving thriller over an impressive amount of thematic territory
The Sunday Times
As an intellectual piece of suspense, Flying Hero Class can hardly be surpassed
Observer
Once you start reading, you can't put it down
Guardian