Author | Thomas Keneally |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Collins, Australia |
Publication date | 1977 |
Media type | |
Pages | 222 pp |
ISBN | 0002224933 |
Preceded by | Season in Purgatory |
Followed by | Passenger |
A Victim of the Aurora (1977) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally. [1]
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. But one of the twenty-five men of the party is a murderer who needs to be exposed.
"To Bob Hawke"
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]
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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