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Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
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 intervi ...Show more
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valleypaints a portrait of a community in a desolate landsc ...Show more
Memoirs of Many in One: Text Classics by Patrick White; Sophie Cunningham (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime,Memoirs of Many in Onepresents the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of the ageing actor, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. These are 'edited' by the writer Patrick White, her friend and executor, who is often the target of her scorn. Witty and ...Show more
Patrick White: Collected Plays: v.1 The Ham Funeral | The Season at Sarsaparilla | A Cheery Soul | Night on Bald Mountain by Patrick White
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Dramatists S.
Ham Funeral (6 men 4 women), Season at Sarsaparilla (9 men 7 women), A Cheery Soul (10 men 18 women), Night on Bald Mountain (5 men 4 women).
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating ...Show more
The Cockatoos: Text Classics by Patrick White; Gail Jones (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer r ...Show more
The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In The Solid Mandala Patrick White draws a telling and touching portrait of twin brothers. Waldo is the competent man of reason, he sees himself as the superior intellect. Arthur, accepted as a half-wit is the innocent, God's fool, loving and outgoing in a blunde ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This Patrick White masterpieceHurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision- his sister's deformity, a ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic editionSet in nineteenth-century Australia, Vossis the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a na ve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive f ...Show more
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