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The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
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 Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White; Jennifer Vuletic (Read by)
Category: Audio
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With this androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us on a journey into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psy ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
Category: Classics
The Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition. Hurtle 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 ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
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
Three Uneasy Pieces by Patrick White
Category: Performing Arts
Addresses the problem of growing old and the 'warts of the soul' which, if gouged out, ruin the flesh. Presenting a peeled potato, a dance in the kitchen and a visit to the aged mother of a childhood friend, this book considers our struggle, our efforts to achieve aesthetic perfection and suggests some ...Show more
Voss by Nicholas (INT) Patrick; Shakespeare White
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library (Cloth)
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
Category: Fiction
The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic edition The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic edition Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Althou ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
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 afor an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.a Set in nineteenth-century Australia ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
Category: Classics
"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