The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Author(s): Thomas Keneally

Location(s): Australia

Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

Half aborigine and half white, Jimmie Blacksmith is unable to fit into either culture and, after abuse and betrayal by whites, revolts in a spree of violence.

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