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An Angel in Australia
An Angel in Australia
Thomas Keneally (born 1935)
English editions
Written in EnglishOffice of Innocence
Anchor · United States · 8 June 2004 · Paperback · 336 pages
An Angel in Australia
Doubleday · Australia · October 2002 · Hardcover · 336 pages
The Office of Innocence
Sceptre · United Kingdom · 2002 · 336 pages
Office of Innocence
Nan A. Talese · United States · 18 March 2003 · Hardcover · 319 pages
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Father Frank Darragh is newly ordained, earnest and inexperienced, serving an Irish-Australian Catholic parish in a Sydney suburb in the early 1940s. The war in the Pacific has come close, the city braces for a Japanese invasion, and American soldiers bring their own temptations. Darragh is drawn into his parishioners' moral troubles: a Black American deserter locked up by the army because he loved a white woman, and Kate Heggarty, married to a prisoner of war, and whose candour and virtue unsettle him. When Kate is murdered, the young priest becomes a suspect, and clearing his name with the police will not settle matters with the Church or with his own conscience.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Historical, Crime, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Australia, 1940s
- First published
- 2002
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
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9781864710014 (Doubleday, Australia)
9780340624739 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)
9780385507639 (Nan A. Talese, United States)
9781400030958 (Anchor, United States)
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