Paul Sharrad - Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine

Join us for the launch of Paul Sharrad's 'Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine', which charts Keneally's writing and reception in the shaping of a literary career. To be launched by Geordie Williamson. 

About the Book

Thomas Keneally: gloabal success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled his early potential? Paul Sharrad's 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. 

Sharrad relies on Keneally’s extensive archive, much of it previously unexamined. It shows Keneally's ambition to earn his living from writing playing out across three markets, his work in other modes (writing for the stage and screen, travel writing, historical narratives) and the breadth and depth of expressions of his social conscience, including political protest, leading professional…