Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, Voss, and Other Novels

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067100977X
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, Voss, and Other Novels written by Herbert Reaske and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1977 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eye of the Storm

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Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429977302
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Eye of the Storm by : Patrick White

Download or read book The Eye of the Storm written by Patrick White and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize winner Patrick White's masterpiece, The Eye of the Storm, the basis for the film starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davies, and Geoffrey Rush. In White's 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children—Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat—wait. It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who in the midst of disaster will look into the eye of the storm. "An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . The Eye of the Storm [is] an intensely dramatic masterpiece" (The Australian).

The Eye of the Storm

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Publisher : Viking
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the Storm written by Patrick White and published by Viking. This book was released on 1974 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of a novel first published in 1973. Focuses on the last days of an aged, wealthy socialite. Her quest for the transcendent is revealed and the complex relationships of her family and associates explored. 'One seeks among debased superlatives for words that would convey the grandeur of 'The Eye of the Storm' not in destitute slogans but in tribute to its high intellect, its fidelity to our victories and confusions, its beauty and heroic maturity ... every passage merits attention and gives satisfactionS (Shirley Hazzard, 'The New York Times Book Review'). White was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.

Voss

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310568X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voss written by Patrick White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passion between the explorer Voss and the young orphan Laura. As Voss is tested by hardship, mutiny, and betrayal during his crossing of the brutal Australian desert, Laura awaits his return in Sydney, where she endures their months of separation as if her life were a dream and Voss the only reality. Marrying a sensitive rendering of hidden love with a stark adventure narrative, Voss is a novel of extraordinary power and virtuosity from a twentieth-century master. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

On Patrick White

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ISBN 13 : 9780369302991
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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The Burnt Ones

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446435075
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burnt Ones written by Patrick White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A young man strangely moved into marriage with a girl like the mother who never understood him. . . A pretty market researcher who learns the ultimate details of love with a difference. . . The collector of bird-calls who unwittingly records the call of a very human nature.

The Burning Library

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Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961236
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Book Synopsis The Burning Library by : Geordie Williamson

Download or read book The Burning Library written by Geordie Williamson and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.

Flaws In The Glass

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144818987X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flaws In The Glass written by Patrick White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This ‘unknown’ is the man who interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but ‘unable to produce him’, he prefers to remain private – or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. But in this book is the self Patrick White does recognize, the one he sees reflected in the glass. It is a remarkable book. In a shifting sequence we learn of youth in Australia; the ‘expensive prison’, his English boarding school; Cambridge with holiday trips to Germany; London in the Blitz; RAF wartime intelligence and compensations of life in Australia. There are journeys to cities and landscapes round the world which take on more reality than places one has actually visited. He tells us whom he has loved and hated and of his opinions – political and literary. He introduces us to a host of characters from Australian cousins to Stravinsky and Queen Elizabeth – and of course to Manoly Lascaris, who in 1942 ‘became the central mandala in my life’s hitherto messy design.’ He describes what he sees in the glass’s reflection with such power that it seems no artist can have attempted or executed a self-portrait so lifelike before.

Patrick White's Fiction

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134918327X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrick White's Fiction written by Carolyn Bliss and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-08-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a necessary, redemptive, or facilitating failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence. Evolution of this theme is traced through forty years of White's fiction: from his first novel, Happy Valley (1939), to his most recent work, The Twyborn Affair (1979). Comprehensive in its scope, this book is informed by a thorough knowledge of White's poetry, plays, short stories, and autobiography, as well as his novels. It is also unique in stressing that White's world view derives from a distinctly Australian experience. It thus links him to a country in which he is deeply rooted and to a heritage he continued to affirm.

The Hanging Garden

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Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250028671
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hanging Garden written by Patrick White and published by Picador. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers." —Annie Proulx "The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time--a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage." —The New York Times Book Review (cover review, 05/26/13) From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Eye of the Storm comes a vivid, visceral tale of childhood friendship and sexual awakening from beyond the echoes of World War II. Sydney, Australia, 1942. Two children, on the cusp of adolescence, have been spirited away from the war in Europe and given shelter in a house on Neutral Bay, taken in by the charity of an old widow who wants little to do with them. The boy, Gilbert, has escaped the Blitz. The girl, Eirene, lost her father in a Greek prison. Left to their own devices, the children forge a friendship of startling honesty, forming a bond of uncommon complexity that they sense will shape their destinies for years to come. Patrick White's posthumously discovered novel, The Hanging Garden, which represents the first part of what was intended to be his final masterpiece, is a breathtaking and important literary event. Seamlessly shifting among points of view, and written in dazzling prose, Patrick White's mastery of style and highly inventive storytelling will transport you as the work of few writers can.