Description: 'Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine' explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing's production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and commercial values, national and international expectations, celebrity status and literary reputation.
Review Quotes:
'Paul Sharrad skillfully combines insights from biography, literary history, book history and celebrity studies to trace changes in the production and reception of Thomas Keneally's works both within Australia and internationally.'
-Elizabeth Webby AM FAHA, Professor Emerita, English Department, University of Sydney, Australia