A Fringe Of Leaves
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Set against the brutal, sun-scorched wilderness of early nineteenth-century Australia, A Fringe of Leaves chronicles the extraordinary ordeal of Ellen Roxburgh, an Englishwoman of humble origins who survives a shipwreck only to be captured by an Aboriginal tribe, stripped of every civilised pretension she has ever known. Patrick White constructs a searing meditation on identity, survival, and the razor-thin boundary between savagery and civilisation, forcing his protagonist — and his reader — to confront the most primal questions of human existence. Inspired by the true story of Eliza Fraser, this 1976 novel stands as one of the crowning achievements of White's Nobel Prize-winning career, demonstrating his mastery of dense, psychologically rich prose that simultaneously illuminates the vast Australian landscape and the equally vast terrain of the human soul. His narrative voice is both austere and luminous, wielding irony and compassion in equal measure as Ellen's journey dismantles the rigid class and gender structures of her Victorian world. A profound and unsettling work, A Fringe of Leaves ultimately asks whether civilisation is a garment we wear — or a skin we can never fully shed.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Set against the brutal, sun-scorched wilderness of early nineteenth-century Australia, A Fringe of Leaves chronicles the extraordinary ordeal of Ellen Roxburgh, an Englishwoman of humble origins who survives a shipwreck only to be captured by an Aboriginal tribe, stripped of every civilised pretension she has ever known. Patrick White constructs a searing meditation on identity, survival, and the razor-thin boundary between savagery and civilisation, forcing his protagonist — and his reader — to confront the most primal questions of human existence. Inspired by the true story of Eliza Fraser, this 1976 novel stands as one of the crowning achievements of White's Nobel Prize-winning career, demonstrating his mastery of dense, psychologically rich prose that simultaneously illuminates the vast Australian landscape and the equally vast terrain of the human soul. His narrative voice is both austere and luminous, wielding irony and compassion in equal measure as Ellen's journey dismantles the rigid class and gender structures of her Victorian world. A profound and unsettling work, A Fringe of Leaves ultimately asks whether civilisation is a garment we wear — or a skin we can never fully shed.