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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
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: Australian Fiction
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 o ...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 Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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: Classics
"The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic editionSet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is 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 ...Show more
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