The Fall of an Eagle
{{Short description|1965 novel by Jon Cleary}}
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William Morrow (US)
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The Fall of an Eagle is a 1965[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/jon-cleary/fall-of-eagle.htm www.fantasticfiction.co.uk] Retrieved 2015-11-17. novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary set in Anatolia. The hero is an American engineer building a dam.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105844898 |title=Not necessarily Turkish delight. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=22 May 1965 |accessdate=18 October 2015 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Critical reception
Allen Glover in The Sydney Morning Herald had some problems with the novel: "Mr Cleary is a good storyteller and his tale holds together well, even if some of his techniques are somewhat old-fashioned. For instance, he still clings to authorial omnipotence, reading his characters' thoughts as well as observing their actions and recording their speech...Mr Cleary seems to have devised his plot carefully and then asked a theatrical agency to provide him with stock characters to appear in the various roles."{{cite web|title="Cleary looks to Turkey" |publisher= The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 1965, p15|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2525295657|access-date= 4 July 2024|id= {{ProQuest|2525295657}}}}
Film adaptation
At one stage producer Audrey Baring was going to make a movie out of the book but although Cleary did a script none was made.[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=vagg%20cleary;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History] at National Film and Sound Archive
References
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External links
- [http://0-austlit.edu.au.library.sl.nsw.gov.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C1qC The Fall of an Eagle] at AustLit (subscription required)
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Category:1965 Australian novels
Category:William Collins, Sons books