A river town

Thomas Keneally

earliest edition we have, 1995 Wheeler Pub., 1995 463 pages

Wheeler large print book series

A novel based on real events in the life of Thomas Keneally's grandfather, A River Town takes us back to the turn of the century. Like the immigrants who came to America's shores, Tim Shea has left his native Ireland and its confining social codes to seek the wide-open spaces of Australia. Struggling to make a living as a storekeeper and to support a growing family, Shea finds his stubborn integrity has made him vuln...

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Editions we hold

A river town edition · 1996 · Plume · 324 pages
A river town edition · 1995 · N.A. Talese · 324 pages
River Town. edition · 1995 · Sceptre · 352 pages
A river town edition · 1995 · Wheeler Pub. · 463 pages

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