Physical description; 260 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; White, Patrick 1912. Novelists, Australian - 20th century - Biography. Authors, Australian - 20th century - Biography.
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About the Author:
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war. He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.
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- PublisherJ. Cape
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 022402924X
- ISBN 13 9780224029247
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages260
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