{"product_id":"2026200017078-secondhand-the-cockatoos-shorter-novels-and-stories","title":"The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels And Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and challenging literary voices comes The Cockatoos, a collection of shorter novels and stories that distils Patrick White's extraordinary gift for psychological intensity into compact, devastating form. Set largely in the suburban and rural landscapes of Australia, these interconnected narratives chronicle the quiet desperation, longing, and fleeting transcendence of ordinary men and women — lives outwardly unremarkable, yet inwardly consumed by passion, isolation, and an aching search for meaning.\n\nWhite, the 1973 Nobel Laureate in Literature, brings his famously dense and lyrical prose to bear on a cast of characters trapped between the mundane and the visionary, between social conformity and an irrepressible inner life. His style — elliptical, demanding, shot through with dark humour and moments of startling beauty — transforms the quotidian into the mythic. The Cockatoos stands as a testament to White's belief that the most profound human truths are buried beneath the surface of everyday existence, waiting for the reader willing to look close enough to uncover them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269353152731,"sku":"2026200017078-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/48866de8-4e26-448b-a5cd-0d89ca064a9b.png?v=1788999223","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017078-secondhand-the-cockatoos-shorter-novels-and-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}