| Title:
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THE PLAYMAKER
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| By: |
Thomas Keneally |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444775634 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444775631 |
| Publisher: |
HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2013 |
| Edition: |
Digital original |
| Description: |
Set in Sydney Cove, 200 years ago, an upright man is in charge of staging a play and, in so doing, helping convicts to reform. As his involvement with the play and his love for the lead actress grows, his hitherto strong resolutions and moral principles are severely put to the test. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in the convict and actress, Mary Brenham. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Sceptre |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |