The Playmaker

by ThomasKeneally (Author)

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  Paperback
  1988

  $4.11

  Set in Sydney Cove, 200 years ago, an upright man is in charge of staging a play and, in so doing, helping convicts to reform. As his involvement with the play and his love for the lead actress grows, his hitherto strong resolutions and moral principles are severely put to the test. The author's book Schindler's Ark was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1982 whilst his novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith , Gossip From the Forest and Confederates have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written Outback , an account of life in Central Australia.

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  paperback
  

  $3.19

  In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in the convict and actress, Mary Brenham.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $4.24

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $22.71