Office of Innocence
  • Published:
    Jun-2004
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1940's-1950's
  • Pages:
    336
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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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    • First Edition
    • Jun-2004
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1400030951
    • ISBN13: 9781400030958
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    • Mar-2003
    • Nan A. Talese
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385507631
    • ISBN13: 9780385507639
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    • Jun-2004
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1400079063
    • ISBN13: 9781400079063
    •  
    • Sep-2012
    • Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1444719769
    • ISBN13: 9781444719765
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    • Jul-2003
    • Wheeler
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1587244497
    • ISBN13: 9781587244490
    • Large Print



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