Flaws In The Glass: A Self-Portrait
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A Nobel Prize-winning author strips back the mythology of his own legend — and what remains is raw, unsparing, and utterly compelling. Flaws in the Glass is Patrick White's unflinching self-portrait, a memoir in which Australia's greatest literary figure chronicles his life from a privileged Anglo-Australian childhood through his years in England, wartime service, and his eventual return to a country he loved and loathed in equal measure. With the same fierce intelligence and searing honesty that animates his fiction, White presents an account of his inner life — his sexuality, his spirituality, his creative torment — that is as much a reckoning with Australian identity as it is with his own. White's prose here is characteristically dense and luminous, shot through with wit, bitterness, and an almost mystical intensity. He argues against complacency — cultural, political, and personal — skewering the mediocrity he saw at the heart of Australian public life while simultaneously illuminating the landscape and people that fed his imagination. This is a portrait of an artist perpetually at war with his world and himself, leaving the reader to wonder whether such ferocious self-scrutiny is the price of genius — or its very source.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A Nobel Prize-winning author strips back the mythology of his own legend — and what remains is raw, unsparing, and utterly compelling. Flaws in the Glass is Patrick White's unflinching self-portrait, a memoir in which Australia's greatest literary figure chronicles his life from a privileged Anglo-Australian childhood through his years in England, wartime service, and his eventual return to a country he loved and loathed in equal measure. With the same fierce intelligence and searing honesty that animates his fiction, White presents an account of his inner life — his sexuality, his spirituality, his creative torment — that is as much a reckoning with Australian identity as it is with his own. White's prose here is characteristically dense and luminous, shot through with wit, bitterness, and an almost mystical intensity. He argues against complacency — cultural, political, and personal — skewering the mediocrity he saw at the heart of Australian public life while simultaneously illuminating the landscape and people that fed his imagination. This is a portrait of an artist perpetually at war with his world and himself, leaving the reader to wonder whether such ferocious self-scrutiny is the price of genius — or its very source.