The Tree Of Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: unclipped dj.
In the vast, untamed wilderness on the outskirts of Sydney, a young man named Stan Parker hacks a homestead out of the bush, takes a wife, and begins the slow, monumental work of building a life — Patrick White's The Tree of Man is an epic chronicle of ordinary human existence rendered extraordinary by the sheer force of its prose. This sweeping Australian novel follows Stan and Amy Parker across decades of drought, flood, fire, and war, mapping the interior landscape of a marriage and a community with the precision of a surveyor and the soul of a poet. White, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, constructs his narrative with a lyrical intensity that elevates the mundane into the mythic, drawing on themes of isolation, spiritual yearning, and the search for meaning in a secular, indifferent world. His style — dense, allusive, and richly textured — demands an attentive reader and rewards one with passages of breathtaking beauty. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1956, this landmark work cemented White's reputation as the preeminent voice of Australian literature, and leaves the reader asking the same question Stan himself cannot quite answer: what, in the end, does a life amount to?
Author: Patrick White
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Eyre & Spottiswoode
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: unclipped dj.
In the vast, untamed wilderness on the outskirts of Sydney, a young man named Stan Parker hacks a homestead out of the bush, takes a wife, and begins the slow, monumental work of building a life — Patrick White's The Tree of Man is an epic chronicle of ordinary human existence rendered extraordinary by the sheer force of its prose. This sweeping Australian novel follows Stan and Amy Parker across decades of drought, flood, fire, and war, mapping the interior landscape of a marriage and a community with the precision of a surveyor and the soul of a poet. White, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, constructs his narrative with a lyrical intensity that elevates the mundane into the mythic, drawing on themes of isolation, spiritual yearning, and the search for meaning in a secular, indifferent world. His style — dense, allusive, and richly textured — demands an attentive reader and rewards one with passages of breathtaking beauty. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1956, this landmark work cemented White's reputation as the preeminent voice of Australian literature, and leaves the reader asking the same question Stan himself cannot quite answer: what, in the end, does a life amount to?