Three Uneasy Pieces
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
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A late-career collection from Nobel Prize-winning Australian author Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces presents three short prose works that crackle with the sardonic wit and unflinching moral vision that defined his literary legacy. Written when White was in his seventies, the pieces chronicle the indignities of aging, the absurdities of modern Australian society, and the persistent tension between the spiritual and the grotesque. With characteristic acerbity, White skewers bourgeois complacency and human vanity, rendering even the most mundane moments of existence as sites of dark comedy and existential unease. The collection illustrates his mastery of the short form, distilling his lifelong preoccupations — isolation, identity, and the search for transcendence — into concentrated, razor-sharp prose. Compact yet formidable, it stands as a defiant and deeply personal final statement from one of the twentieth century's most uncompromising literary voices.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A late-career collection from Nobel Prize-winning Australian author Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces presents three short prose works that crackle with the sardonic wit and unflinching moral vision that defined his literary legacy. Written when White was in his seventies, the pieces chronicle the indignities of aging, the absurdities of modern Australian society, and the persistent tension between the spiritual and the grotesque. With characteristic acerbity, White skewers bourgeois complacency and human vanity, rendering even the most mundane moments of existence as sites of dark comedy and existential unease. The collection illustrates his mastery of the short form, distilling his lifelong preoccupations — isolation, identity, and the search for transcendence — into concentrated, razor-sharp prose. Compact yet formidable, it stands as a defiant and deeply personal final statement from one of the twentieth century's most uncompromising literary voices.