A Victim of the Aurora

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A Victim of the Aurora
Author Thomas Keneally
Language English
GenreFiction
Publisher Collins, Australia
Publication date
1977
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages222 pp
ISBN 0002224933
Preceded by Season in Purgatory  
Followed by Passenger  

A Victim of the Aurora is a 1977 novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally. [1]

Contents

Abstract

In the 1970s, Anthony Piers, the narrator of the story is an aged man living in a rest home who decides to tell the story in flashback. In the Antarctic winter in 1910, a group of gentlemen adventurers, led by Captain Sir Eugene Stewart, wait for an opportunity to strike out for the South Pole. One of them is found dead, and now Stewart must find out which of his 25 carefully-chosen men has become a murderer. Stewart, along with Piers and another man, Sullivan, form the triumvirate to get to the bottom of the matter.

Dedication

"To Bob Hawke"

Critical reception

In the Canberra Times Hope Hewitt stated: "the understated form of expression contributes to the real point of the book. This is not the excitement, of a whodunit, for the process of revelation is quiet and sad, in the mind not in the action. The event of greatest impact is not the disclosure of the murderer but what happened afterwards, the decision in the mind of Sir Eugene. " [2]

Publication history

After its original publication in 1977 by Collins, [3] the novel was published as follows:

And then in various paperback, braille and sound recording editions.

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References

  1. ↑ "Austlit - A Victim of the Aurora by Thomas Keneally". Austlit. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  2. ↑ ""Victims All Round"". The Canberra Times, 24 June 1978, p13. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "A Victim of the Aurora (Collins 1977)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "A Victim of the Aurora (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "A Victim of the Aurora (Fontana)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
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