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Fiction

Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally

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December 1989–January 1990, no. 117

Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally

Hodder & Stoughton, 272 pp, $29.95 hb

Fiction

Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally

by •
December 1989–January 1990, no. 117

Tom Keneally used to be a fashionable writer, but not anymore, at least not with the critics, though readers continue to read him. Critical concern today is with aesthetics rather than ethics, theory rather than practice. Towards Asmara is therefore not likely to get a great deal of serious attention. This is a pity because it raises some weighty issues, and the loss is the critics’!

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Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was an Australian religious sister, writer, and academic. She was an authority on Patrick White and also wrote a biography of Judith Wright (South of My Days,1998). Her criticism was published widely in Australian magazines and newspapers and her books included The Future People: Christianity, modern culture and the future (1971), The Mystics (1974), A Crucible of Prophets: Australians and the question of God (1981), Playing Catholic: Essays on four Catholic plays (1991), Polyphonies of the Self (1993), and Caught in the Draught: Contemporary Australian Culture and Society (1994).

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