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Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) [1] is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler 's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982.
- Docherty 'Based on A Friend'
- A Priest Who Inspires and Alarms
- The Role of The Confessional
- So Why A Novel and Not A History of The Church?
Keneally based Docherty on his friend, Sydney priest Pat Connor, but says the fictional version is "less perfect than him". "I can now speak so freely about him because I can't hurt his reputation with bishops," Keneally says. "[Connor] thought social justice was the same as love, the love for which St Paul said was the First Commandment." By speak...
One parishioner, Maureen, is a young married woman trying to work out how to be a progressive Catholic. "Docherty asks her to obey her own informed conscience ... the Vatican not the final determinant," Keneally says. "Individual conscience is supreme in Frank's book. That is the biggest issue in the Catholic Church." Maureen and Docherty become fr...
In writing Crimes of the Father Keneally drew on the research of former Benedictine monk Richard Sipe, an expert on celibacy and its relationship to child abuse. That research found that the confessional has a place in the methods of the paedophile priest, opening up often confusing conversations for children about sins of the flesh. Disconcertingl...
"Fiction hath charms — that's all I have to say," he says. "You're telling truth through lies. But they are true lies, the lies of fiction. They're authentic lies. You still depend on absolute reality."
Nov 2, 2023 · Other than his love for Jenny and his guilt at his father’s death, he has little inner life. It is telling, moreover, that rather than Mitchel expressing his guilt directly, Keneally has him ...
Thomas Keneally’s remarkable, Booker-winning historical fiction about the unlikely hero who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazi death machine.
by Meg and Tom Keneally (Author) 4.3 27 ratings. Book 2 of 3: The Monsarrat Mystery Series. See all formats and editions. Not all murder victims are mourned... For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women.
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Feb 11, 2023 · Man (31) charged with murder of Mary Ward (22) in Belfast. At 87, with more than 50 books to his name, the author is not a man to take things slowly, and the chat comes quick and fast.
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Jun 18, 2004 · There was a notice of Schindler's death in 1974, and of the reburial of his body a month later in Jerusalem. And there were photographs of scenes from a camp.
