The Burnt Ones
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of the twentieth century's most commanding literary voices comes The Burnt Ones, a searing collection of eleven short stories that cuts to the bone of human longing, failure, and quiet desperation. Patrick White chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women — both Australian and Greek — who are scorched by their own unfulfilled desires, social constraints, and the brutal indifference of the world around them, rendering each character with an almost unbearable psychological precision. Whether set against the sun-bleached suburbs of Sydney or the crumbling landscapes of post-war Greece, these stories present portraits of souls trapped between aspiration and ruin, between connection and isolation. White, the 1973 Nobel Laureate in Literature, brings his signature blend of savage irony and profound compassion to bear on lives that society deems unremarkable, yet he illuminates them with an intensity that is nothing short of revelatory. His prose — dense, layered, and richly symbolic — argues that it is precisely the overlooked and the broken who carry the deepest truths about the human condition. The Burnt Ones stands as a testament to White's unparalleled ability to transfigure the mundane into the mythic, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it truly cost a person to be seen?
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of the twentieth century's most commanding literary voices comes The Burnt Ones, a searing collection of eleven short stories that cuts to the bone of human longing, failure, and quiet desperation. Patrick White chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women — both Australian and Greek — who are scorched by their own unfulfilled desires, social constraints, and the brutal indifference of the world around them, rendering each character with an almost unbearable psychological precision. Whether set against the sun-bleached suburbs of Sydney or the crumbling landscapes of post-war Greece, these stories present portraits of souls trapped between aspiration and ruin, between connection and isolation. White, the 1973 Nobel Laureate in Literature, brings his signature blend of savage irony and profound compassion to bear on lives that society deems unremarkable, yet he illuminates them with an intensity that is nothing short of revelatory. His prose — dense, layered, and richly symbolic — argues that it is precisely the overlooked and the broken who carry the deepest truths about the human condition. The Burnt Ones stands as a testament to White's unparalleled ability to transfigure the mundane into the mythic, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it truly cost a person to be seen?