1523 records matched your query
02157aam a2200457 a 4500 001 B6564502B24C11ECA3078D8E53ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220402011800 008 210206t20222020nyu b 000 1 eng d 010 $a bl2022007143 020 $a 1982169141 020 $a 9781982169145 040 $a YDX $c YDX $d BDX $d CNNWP $d HQD $d Y$5 $d HOT $d HBP $d IHY $d UAP $d IUK $d SDL $d SKYRV $d CoBoFLC $d SILO 043 $a u-at--- 050 4 $a PR9619.3 082 04 $a F KEN $2 23 100 1 $a Keneally, Thomas, $e author. 245 14 $a The Dickens boy : $b a novel / $c Thomas Keneally. 250 $a 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., $c 2022, c2020. 300 $a 401 p. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]- 400). 600 10 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Family $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Country life $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z Australia $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Australia $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 8 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230819010030.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20221004020116.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220712011519.0 952 $l LHPD057 $d 20220421122637.0 $m FIC 952 $l REPC017 $d 20220407023922.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220405013934.0 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20220405012629.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20220402012842.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6564502B24C11ECA3078D8E53ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search