The secret river / Kate Grenville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grenville, Kate, 1950-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penal colonies--Australia--New South Wales--Fiction.

Penal colonies.

Land tenure--Australia--New South Wales--Fiction.

Land tenure.

History.

New South Wales--History--19th century--Fiction.

New South Wales.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

334 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2005.

Summary:

After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thomhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the terms of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children to tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But his first glimpse of land for the taking awakens in him a desire he never had before: to own that land, no matter the cost to his soul. From the winner of the 2001 Orange Prize.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1841957976 :

OCLC:

68043530

Publisher Number:

9781841957975