Reviews for With wings as eagles

The average rating for With wings as eagles based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-16 00:00:00 Ivan Miller This is no fantasy / science fiction, which is what I have mainly read of his work os far. This is adult stuff, recently contemporary Australia, and dark. Its structure is fractured, fragmented, itself helping to create the mindset of the main character / narrator. Just as I am starting to grapple with the notion of how to tell a story that is, in part, someone else's, so this novel turns up, doing exactly that. Kelleher's is an interesting response. At one point: "Real? How can any of them [his characters] be real? The people who know what really happened are the ones who were there. I can't speak for them. Quite a little speech, Jack. Maybe, but it's true all the same. No one can say for sure what's going on in someone else's life. She dips her finger in the remains of her coffee and draws a larghe V-shape on the plastic cloth. What about the dead? she says quietly. They don't have a voice any more. They need us as much as we need them. If someone doesn't speak for them, they stay silent. History stops. And we're all marooned in a present that's going nowhere." [pg 92]

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-03 00:00:00 John Hayes Skillfully written as you would expect from Mr Kelleher, however, I found some sections of the book a little turgid - it took me several weeks to read as I kept putting it down and not enthusing about picking it up again. It did give an interesting perspective on a time in Australian history - racial, political and a revolution that fizzled out of existence. If you love his writing you will enjoy it but not for the faint hearted.