# By the Line

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- Book: [By the Line](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-keneally/by-the-line) ([By the Line.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-keneally/by-the-line.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Keneally](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-keneally)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4478-421-3
- Published: 2013-10-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of his family's terrifying neighbour, the 'Comrade'. Refreshingly unsentimental, this is the funny, ultimately tragic story of a boy struggling to understand a world in which concepts like innocence and guilt, good and evil are clearly open to interpretation.