Three Uneasy Pieces
Condition: SECONDHAND
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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 celebrated literary voices comes a slim but searingly honest collection that refuses to be ignored. Three Uneasy Pieces presents three late prose works by Nobel Prize-winning Australian author Patrick White, written in the final years of his life, in which he confronts ageing, mortality, identity, and the uneasy tensions of modern existence with unflinching candour and dark, sardonic wit. These pieces are autobiographical in spirit, blending personal meditation with sharp social observation and a tone that oscillates between wry humour and existential disquiet. White's signature prose style — dense, allusive, and psychologically penetrating — is on full display here, as he turns his formidable literary gaze inward and upon the world around him. As both a farewell meditation and a defiant late-career statement, Three Uneasy Pieces illustrates why White remains one of the most distinctive and uncompromising voices in world literature, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it mean to face the end with one's eyes fully open?
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
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 celebrated literary voices comes a slim but searingly honest collection that refuses to be ignored. Three Uneasy Pieces presents three late prose works by Nobel Prize-winning Australian author Patrick White, written in the final years of his life, in which he confronts ageing, mortality, identity, and the uneasy tensions of modern existence with unflinching candour and dark, sardonic wit. These pieces are autobiographical in spirit, blending personal meditation with sharp social observation and a tone that oscillates between wry humour and existential disquiet. White's signature prose style — dense, allusive, and psychologically penetrating — is on full display here, as he turns his formidable literary gaze inward and upon the world around him. As both a farewell meditation and a defiant late-career statement, Three Uneasy Pieces illustrates why White remains one of the most distinctive and uncompromising voices in world literature, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it mean to face the end with one's eyes fully open?