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Promised Lands

Promised Lands

by JaneRogers (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $4.19

  • Used

    Paperback 1996

    $3.25

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    Hardcover 1995

    $5.81
Synopsis

Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book Award, 1996 The year is 1788, the place New South Wales. Marine Lieutenant William Dawes has arrived in the Antipodes to build an observatory, reform the convicts and understand the Aborigines. He is a good man who will be subject to many temptations. In England, now, a child is born. His mother knows he has extraordinary powers; his father knows he is a helpless cripple. Olla, defending and nurturing her miraculous son, emerges as one of the strangest and most compelling characters of contemporary fiction. Jane Rogers intertwines the powerful dramas of the first year of the convict-colony with these present-day lives to make a rich and gripping novel.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 472
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Abacus
Published: 02 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 034911322X
ISBN 13: 9780349113227
Book Overview: * Jane Rogers intertwines the powerful dramas of the first year of the convict-colony with present-day lives in her classic novel

Media Reviews
Ambitiously conceived and brilliantly realized * THE TIMES *
Sublime ... A haunting and passionate novel, beautifully related, with some of the best passages of descriptive writing I have read for a long time * INDEPENDENT *
Compelling, elegantly written, acutely intelligent and thoughtful * TIME OUT *
One of Jane Roger's many strengths as a literary novelist is her ability to blend fact and fiction entertainingly and almost seamlessly...a distinctive, dynamic work that explores the nature of all types of exile. * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING *
Author Bio
Jane Rogers has written six novels including Mr Wroe's Virgins (dramatised as an award-winning television serial) and Promised Lands, which won the Writers' Guild Best Novel Award 1996. She also writes for TV and radio, and teaches at Sheffield Hallam University. Her most recent novel, ISLAND, was published by Abacus in 1999.