Patrick White: A Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; slightly crushed spine
Few literary lives in the twentieth century burn as fiercely or as contradictorily as that of Patrick White — Nobel laureate, recluse, visionary, and Australia's most celebrated yet most difficult novelist. David Marr's monumental biography, Patrick White: A Life, chronicles the full arc of White's extraordinary existence, from his privileged yet emotionally starved Sydney childhood and his years wandering through England and Europe, to the Greek island sojourn that transformed him, and the decades of solitary, ferocious creative labour that produced masterworks such as Voss, The Tree of Man, and Riders in the Chariot. Marr brings to this portrait the rigorous instincts of an investigative journalist and the sensitivity of a literary scholar, constructing a narrative that is as psychologically penetrating as it is richly detailed. The biography illuminates White's turbulent inner world — his complex sexuality, his volcanic temper, his spiritual hunger, and his enduring partnership with Manoly Lascaris — and argues compellingly that these tensions were the very engine of his genius. Awarded the National Book Council Award for Non-Fiction, this is a definitive life of a writer who reshaped the possibilities of Australian literature; readers will finish it wondering how one man could contain such fury and such grace.
Author: David Marr
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; slightly crushed spine
Few literary lives in the twentieth century burn as fiercely or as contradictorily as that of Patrick White — Nobel laureate, recluse, visionary, and Australia's most celebrated yet most difficult novelist. David Marr's monumental biography, Patrick White: A Life, chronicles the full arc of White's extraordinary existence, from his privileged yet emotionally starved Sydney childhood and his years wandering through England and Europe, to the Greek island sojourn that transformed him, and the decades of solitary, ferocious creative labour that produced masterworks such as Voss, The Tree of Man, and Riders in the Chariot. Marr brings to this portrait the rigorous instincts of an investigative journalist and the sensitivity of a literary scholar, constructing a narrative that is as psychologically penetrating as it is richly detailed. The biography illuminates White's turbulent inner world — his complex sexuality, his volcanic temper, his spiritual hunger, and his enduring partnership with Manoly Lascaris — and argues compellingly that these tensions were the very engine of his genius. Awarded the National Book Council Award for Non-Fiction, this is a definitive life of a writer who reshaped the possibilities of Australian literature; readers will finish it wondering how one man could contain such fury and such grace.