Flaws In The Glass: A Self-Portrait
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few literary memoirs arrive with the weight of a Nobel Prize behind them, but Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait is no ordinary autobiography — it is a merciless, luminous act of self-reckoning by one of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures. Patrick White chronicles his extraordinary life from his privileged but emotionally arid Australian childhood, through his years in England and wartime service, to his deliberate and defiant return to Australia, where he would forge the novels that changed the landscape of world literature. With the same unsparing candour he brought to his fiction, White dissects his relationships, his sexuality, his contempt for mediocrity, and his complex, often anguished bond with the Australian land and its people. Written in White's characteristically fierce and crystalline prose, Flaws in the Glass is as much a cultural polemic as a personal confession, presenting a portrait of a man perpetually at war with the comfortable and the complacent. White argues passionately against the philistinism he perceived at the heart of Australian society, while simultaneously revealing the deep, almost mystical love that kept him rooted to its red soil. This is a book that illuminates not only the man who wrote Voss and The Tree of Man, but the very nature of artistic vocation itself — and it leaves the reader wondering what price, exactly, genius demands of those who possess it.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few literary memoirs arrive with the weight of a Nobel Prize behind them, but Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait is no ordinary autobiography — it is a merciless, luminous act of self-reckoning by one of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures. Patrick White chronicles his extraordinary life from his privileged but emotionally arid Australian childhood, through his years in England and wartime service, to his deliberate and defiant return to Australia, where he would forge the novels that changed the landscape of world literature. With the same unsparing candour he brought to his fiction, White dissects his relationships, his sexuality, his contempt for mediocrity, and his complex, often anguished bond with the Australian land and its people. Written in White's characteristically fierce and crystalline prose, Flaws in the Glass is as much a cultural polemic as a personal confession, presenting a portrait of a man perpetually at war with the comfortable and the complacent. White argues passionately against the philistinism he perceived at the heart of Australian society, while simultaneously revealing the deep, almost mystical love that kept him rooted to its red soil. This is a book that illuminates not only the man who wrote Voss and The Tree of Man, but the very nature of artistic vocation itself — and it leaves the reader wondering what price, exactly, genius demands of those who possess it.