{"product_id":"2026100012065-secondhand-the-aunts-story","title":"The Aunt's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most quietly devastating novels of the twentieth century, Patrick White's The Aunt's Story chronicles the singular life of Theodora Goodman — an plain, unmarried Australian woman who, upon the death of her mother, embarks on a solitary journey across Europe and America, only to find the borders between reality and imagination dissolving around her. Set against the vivid landscapes of pre-war Australia, the hotels of southern France, and the American Midwest, this 1948 masterwork presents a protagonist whose fierce inner life stands in sharp, ironic contrast to the world's indifference to her.\n\nWhite, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, illustrates in Theodora a profound meditation on solitude, identity, and the cost of an uncompromising inner vision. Written in a dense, poetic prose that demands and rewards close attention, the novel argues — with unsettling conviction — that madness and transcendence may be two names for the same experience. For readers willing to surrender to its rhythms, The Aunt's Story remains one of literature's most haunting portraits of a woman who refuses, even in her dissolution, to be entirely consumed by the world around her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070624530651,"sku":"2026100012065-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6f1c382c-4107-4a30-bf0f-c57f602873dc.png?v=1794188198","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012065-secondhand-the-aunts-story","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}