Availability:In StockContributor:Patrick White, Thomas Keneally (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-01-27Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143105688ISBN-10:014310568XUPC:9780143105688Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, ClassicsSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCHY68NWEQ
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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...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143105688ISBN-10:014310568XUPC:9780143105688Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, ClassicsSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCHY68NWEQ
Patrick White (1912-1990) was born in England in 1912, when his parents were in Europe for two years; at six months he was taken back to Australia, where his father owned a sheep station. When he was thirteen, he went to school in England, to Cheltenham, "where it was understood, the climate would be temperate and a colonial acceptable." Neither proved true, and after four rather miserable years...
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
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