Author | Thomas Keneally |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Angus and Robertson, Australia |
Publication date | 1972 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | |
Pages | 178 pp |
ISBN | 0207123756 |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated Australian novel by Thomas Keneally,[1] and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi.[2] The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor, the subject of an earlier book by Frank Clune.[3]