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| Author | Thomas Keneally |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Collins, Australia |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 186 pp |
| ISBN | 0002216299 |
| Preceded by | A Victim of the Aurora |
| Followed by | Confederates |
Passenger (1979) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally. [1]
The narrator of this novel is a foetus in utero, who watches the outside world through his mother's eyes. He observes the break-up of his parents' marriage, his mother's incarceration in a mental hospital, and her eventual escape and travel to Australia, where he is born.
"To Trish Sheppard and Iain Findlay."
In the Canberra Times Hope Hewitt was a little annoyed with the main character: "In practice it provides a novel excuse for the oldest of narrative conventions: the omniscient narrator. It also provides for a variation on the Romantic notion of the wise child; and I confess that there were moments when the little man became so polysyllabically philosophical or his creator so cutely whimsical that I found myself wishing the brat would remain unborn...But apart from a few irritations with the conventions of the fantasy, Passenger is an entertaining book, with its constant changes of scene and its unexpected uses of language." [2]
After its original publication in 1979 by Collins, [3] the novel was published as follows:
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