"Australian art has come to lean heavily on parable and myth-making. Keneally's work is strongly and successfully in that tradition." - Dennis Chong (New Statesman, 9/1/72)
"Here are the trappings of 'In Cold Blood'--rural isolation, slaughter, manhunt--but the impulse, the motivations, and, most important, Keneally's highly charged and distinctive style are quite different....Keneally's account...is exciting and chilling; the battle--with human malevolence, with spiritual fear, with the remorseless natural world--is real, not the daydream stuff of, say, James Dickey's 'Deliverance', in which the problems and struggles are neat and bland....[Keneally] has blended history, psychological insight and epic adventure with great skill." - Ann Champeau (New York Times Book Review, 8/27/72)
"Keneally is not merely an entertainer telling a bloody and exciting story. He is also a writer of formidable skills and resources;...he has a visceral feeling for physical action and his prose conveys it powerfully." - Monte Swain (Washington Post Book World, 8/13/72)
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