The Thorn Birds
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4.5 • 590 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
“Beautiful….Compelling entertainment.” —New York Times
One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation.
The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.
“A heart-rending epic…truly marvelous.” —Chicago Tribune
Customer Reviews
love it
excellent read
I paid nine dollars for this?
Gave five stars because the poor author has passed away, and it was a good occupation of time, for nine dollars…I guess.
I’m sure there are people out there who need to read this book so that they could get the lesson out of it. And it has a great lesson in it, and I won’t spoil it for you. But darn, if I wanted to hear a story about how religion ruined a bunch of people’s lives, I could have just caught the bus down to any local church in existence and heard a hundred “The Thornbirds”, type stories.
Anyway, the author is a fantastic writer…and that’s to be expected from a neuroscientist (they know a thing or two about how to entertain a human brain). That being said, maybe the Thornbirds just wasn’t for me…but I’ll consider picking up one her other titles.
Why don’t they have Thorn-birds on audio
Why don’t they have Thorn birds on audio