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Thomas Keneally: world success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled early potential? 'Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine' explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing's production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and commercial values, national and international expectations, celebrity status and literary reputation.