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Title	:	Four Fires
Author	:	Bryce Courtenay
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1048 pages
Published	:	November 27th 2003 by Penguin (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia

Four Fires

Bryce Courtenay

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 1048 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 3751 Users | 219 Reviews

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In a small town like any other small town around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first run of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you won't forget: a strong mother, a father broken by war, three boys and two girls, one of whom has an illegitimate daughter. Each of their lives is changed forever by the four fires – passion, religion, warfare and fire itself.

Four Fire is unashamedly a story of the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against the odds.

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Original Title:	Four Fires
ISBN:	0141011440 (ISBN13: 9780141011448)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Peter "Mole" Maloney, Bozo Maloney, Nancy Maloney, Sarah Maloney, Mike Maloney, Tommy Maloney

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Ratings: 4.23 From 3751 Users | 219 Reviews

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It wasn't the best book on earth. But you know how when you read a book that you absolutely adore, you read everything else you can get your hands on by that author? And when the author is Australian, making it doubly hard to get his books, it feels like quite a coup to get them? Well, I'm sure you get the idea. I'm beginning to see the themes that Courtenay likes to use (boxing being a key one, and there is another one that I will not mention, in case you are going to read either this or The

I did not finish reading this book. I completed 739 of 1048 pages and although the original plot was interesting, I found I became bored with all the unnecessary detail.

Four Fires, by Bryce Courtenay, Narrated by Humphrey Bowers, Produced by Bolinda Publishing, downloaded from audible.com.This is a three-generation family narrative covering 100 years, in Australian history, the majority of the narrative taking place from 1956 to about 1964. Nancy Maloney is the mother of all five children in this narrative, but three of them are by different fathers. Her own husband fathered two, but only one in wedlock, so theres only one legitimate Maloney. Tommy Maloney, the

I *loved* this book! Admittedly, I listened to it, and the reader, Humphrey Bower, is more an actor than a reader. He made the book come alive as he adopted the tones and accents of men and women, boys and girls, all with their accented English (Yiddish, German, Japanese, Indian, Irish, Australian...). This is a story of a wildly unusual Australian family surviving by intelligence and drive and endless courage. A great read/listen! I was sorry to have it end.

It is an enormous task to present in one package the fictional biographies of an entire family. This family the Maloneys lived hand to mouth in a small country town Yankalilee where the matriarch Nancy proudly reared her brood. They were a product of the nineteen fifties and suffered the prejudices of that era with resignation and stoicism. Nancys children were not all fathered by her husband Tommy. Those who were the the prodigy of chance encounters were liberally gifted with exceptional traits

There are so many things to love about Courtenays writing, and again he has crafted deep characterisation that allows us to love and care about his protagonists. However, this book just felt a little too convoluted and could have carried the same emotional impact with 400 pages fewer.Mole Moloney is a great character and his stories of his family, bushfires, his fathers war and his own Vietnam experiences, along with his PTSD do make for some journey. A good but not great read.

A truly outstanding book, and in my opinion Bryce Courtneys best, it opens your eyes to life in a small Australian community in the 1950s. and gives graphic descriptions of being held a prisoner of war by the Japanese in the 2nd W.W. Yes it is a long book,but one that never failed to hold my interest from first to last page. I have actually read this book 3 times,and each time got some new perspective from the story. In my opinion this is the mark of a great book.