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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
1974

Pages
  
384 pp

Originally published
  
1974

Genre
  
Fiction

Publisher
  
HarperCollins

3.5/5
Goodreads

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Followed by
  
Moses the Lawgiver

Author
  
Thomas Keneally

ISBN
  
0002210878

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Preceded by
  
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Thomas Keneally books
  
Season in Purgatory, Cut Rate Kingdom, Flying hero class, The Survivor, Woman of the inner sea

Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally.

Contents

Story outline

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".

Critical reception

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."

References

Blood Red, Sister Rose Wikipedia