Blood Red, Sister Rose
| Author | Thomas Keneally |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Collins |
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Publication date
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1974 |
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| Pages | 384 pp |
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| Preceded by | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith |
| Followed by | Moses the Lawgiver |
Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally.
The novel is loosely based on the life of Joan of Arc. It concentrates mainly on the events surrounding the Maid's lifting of the siege of Orleans, and the real reason behind her "voices".
Kirkus Reviews noted about the novel: "This is probably Keneally's magnum opus, but like other culminating masterpieces its fictional components have been foreshadowed in his earlier, more modest novels. Again Keneally examines the predicament of the wise fools of this world, the forthright blunderers who, unlike the Establishment, take account of the realities of human suffering and cosmic bewilderment."
Veronica Brady, in her essay reviewing a number of Keneally novels noted that the author's Joan is "an Australian version of the French heroine, and her predicament reflects a tension central to a culture in which relationships to history on the one hand and to the environment on the other remain ambivalent."
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