John Tully

Robbed of Every Blessing (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ireland, early 1800s. The Napoleonic Wars have ended, leaving an already disjointed country in peril. Maurice O'Dwyer, a young Irishman, considers the lifeless body of an English tithe-collector slain under a rain-filled sky. From that moment it seems his fate is sealed: he and his young simpleton brother, Padraig, are exiled to Australia, An Astráil, to the convict-filled island of Van Diemen's Land - leaving behind his love, his land, and his liberty. However, in the bush Maurice discovers that there are allies in the most unlikely of places. What the critics said "With the passion of an activist and the ear of a poet, John Tully constructs his novel out of the differing perspectives of the colonial project, weaving Irish lives and English lives, black experiences and white experiences into a dense tapestry of oppression and the many little resistances it fostered. This is an account of settlement in all its complexity, a multilayered book written with a deep sympathy for ordinary people coping with the collision of very different worlds. It's a text built from parallels, echoes and resonances, a much-needed excavation of a past that still haunts us." - Jeff Sparrow, co-author of Radical Melbourne: A Secret History

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hybrid Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742984537
• Artikelnr.: 55031239

Autorenporträt

John Tully lives in Dover in the far south of Tasmania but lived and worked in Melbourne for 35 years. He grew up in Tasmanian hydro construction towns after emigrating with his parents as a child from the UK. Before turning to a career as a professor of history he earned his living as a rigger in construction and heavy industry. He is the author of five novels, as well as numerous non-fiction publications including a short history of Cambodia and a social history of the world rubber industry. John is a keen bushwalker. He has walked in many places around the world but believes that Tasmania is up there with the best of them