7 /10 1 Votes
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 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."