Office of Innocence

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Historical
Cover of the book Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Thomas Keneally ISBN: 9781400079063
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: June 8, 2004
Imprint: Anchor Language: English
Author: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9781400079063
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: June 8, 2004
Imprint: Anchor
Language: English

Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller Schindler’s List*,* Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War II Australia. As Sydney braces itself for a Japanese invasion, Father Frank Darragh finds his pastoral duties becoming increasingly challenging. How should he counsel an AWOL black American soldier who may face death for his involvement with a white woman? And what should he say to another woman—the distressingly beguiling Kate Heggarty—who impresses him with her virtue even as she edges toward sin?

When Kate is found murdered, Darragh falls under suspicion. And even if the police clear him, his superiors—and his own conscience—may not. Office of Innocence is a book that’s impossible to put down, dense with moral complexity and alive with period detail.

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Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller Schindler’s List*,* Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War II Australia. As Sydney braces itself for a Japanese invasion, Father Frank Darragh finds his pastoral duties becoming increasingly challenging. How should he counsel an AWOL black American soldier who may face death for his involvement with a white woman? And what should he say to another woman—the distressingly beguiling Kate Heggarty—who impresses him with her virtue even as she edges toward sin?

When Kate is found murdered, Darragh falls under suspicion. And even if the police clear him, his superiors—and his own conscience—may not. Office of Innocence is a book that’s impossible to put down, dense with moral complexity and alive with period detail.

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