Thomas Keneally
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October 07, 1935
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally avg rating 4.19 — 2,245 ratings — published 1982 48 editions |
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Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.45 — 47 ratings — published 2002 5 editions |
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Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.72 — 43 ratings — published 2008 5 editions |
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.29 — 48 ratings — published 2005 9 editions |
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The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.60 — 42 ratings — published 1998 6 editions |
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The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.66 — 41 ratings — published 1987 5 editions |
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Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.70 — 40 ratings — published 1993 4 editions |
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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.63 — 38 ratings — published 2002 6 editions |
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.34 — 41 ratings — published 1972 12 editions |
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Office of Innocence: A Novel by Thomas Keneally avg rating 3.32 — 19 ratings — published 2002 5 editions |
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"Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful. "
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)
"But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to silence? To pretend that the Holocaust was the work merely of a well-armed minority who didn’t do as much harm as is claimed-and likewise, to argue that the Irish Famine was either an inevitability or the fault of the Irish-is to say that both were mere unreliable rumors, and not the great motors of history they so obviously proved to be. It suited me to think so at the time, but still I believe it to be true, that if there are going to be areas of history which are off-bounds, then in principle we are reduced to fudging, to cosmetic narrative. "
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)
"Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person."
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)
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