The Resource The secret river, Kate Grenville
The secret river, Kate Grenville
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The item The secret river, Kate Grenville represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- A story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia in 1806. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined to make the place his own. But, as uninhabited as the island appears, Australia is full of native people, and they do not take kindly to Thornhill's theft of their home. The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First American paperback edition.
- Extent
- 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9781841959146
- Label
- The secret river
- Title
- The secret river
- Statement of responsibility
- Kate Grenville
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia in 1806. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined to make the place his own. But, as uninhabited as the island appears, Australia is full of native people, and they do not take kindly to Thornhill's theft of their home. The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people
- Cataloging source
- IUK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Grenville, Kate
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 6.2
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Penal colonies
- Land tenure
- Land tenure
- Penal colonies
- New South Wales
- New South Wales
- Label
- The secret river, Kate Grenville
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1549186
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First American paperback edition.
- Extent
- 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9781841959146
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781841959146
- (OCoLC)137335594
- Label
- The secret river, Kate Grenville
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1549186
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First American paperback edition.
- Extent
- 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9781841959146
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781841959146
- (OCoLC)137335594
Subject
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Land tenure
- Land tenure -- Australia | New South Wales -- Fiction
- New South Wales
- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Penal colonies
- Penal colonies -- Australia | New South Wales -- Fiction
- 1800 - 1899
Genre
Included in
- trueNielsen BookData Australian Booksellers' Choice Award
- trueSchool Library Journal's Adult Books for High School Students: 2006
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2007
- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year
- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- trueCommonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book
- trueCommonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book: Regional Award: South East Asia & Pacific
- trueNSW Premier's Literary Awards: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
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