Voss
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the vast, unforgiving Australian interior of 1845, a brilliant but megalomaniacal German explorer named Johann Ulrich Voss sets out to become the first man to cross the continent — a journey as much spiritual as physical. Patrick White's masterwork chronicles the obsessive, doomed expedition with extraordinary psychological intensity, weaving in a haunting telepathic bond between Voss and Laura Trevelyan, a young Sydney woman he barely knows yet is irrevocably bound to. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and widely considered one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Voss secured White's reputation as Australia's foremost literary voice and a precursor to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. White's prose is dense, visionary, and richly symbolic — the desert becomes a canvas for human pride, faith, and annihilation. For readers who dare to follow Voss into the wilderness, the novel asks a haunting question: how far will a man go to become a god?
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the vast, unforgiving Australian interior of 1845, a brilliant but megalomaniacal German explorer named Johann Ulrich Voss sets out to become the first man to cross the continent — a journey as much spiritual as physical. Patrick White's masterwork chronicles the obsessive, doomed expedition with extraordinary psychological intensity, weaving in a haunting telepathic bond between Voss and Laura Trevelyan, a young Sydney woman he barely knows yet is irrevocably bound to. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and widely considered one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Voss secured White's reputation as Australia's foremost literary voice and a precursor to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. White's prose is dense, visionary, and richly symbolic — the desert becomes a canvas for human pride, faith, and annihilation. For readers who dare to follow Voss into the wilderness, the novel asks a haunting question: how far will a man go to become a god?