A River Town

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PUBLISHED BY NAN A. TALESE

an imprint of Doubleday

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DOUBLEDAY is a trademark of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

First published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Keneally, Thomas.

A river town / Thomas Keneally.—1st ed. in the U.S.A.

p. cm.

1. City and town life—Australia—Fiction. 2. Social classes—Australia—Fiction. 3. Immigrants—Australia—Fiction. 4. Irish—Australia—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9619.3.K46R58 1995

823—dc20 94-48664

eISBN: 978-0-307-80063-3

Copyright © 1995 by Serpentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.

All Rights Reserved

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