A Fringe Of Leaves
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
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Set against the raw, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century Australia, A Fringe of Leaves is a sweeping work of literary fiction that chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Ellen Roxburgh, an Englishwoman who survives a shipwreck only to be captured by an Aboriginal tribe. Patrick White draws on the true story of Eliza Fraser to construct a profound meditation on identity, civilization, and the primal self, as Ellen is stripped of every social convention and forced to confront the core of her own humanity. The novel's tone is at once austere and luminous, with White's characteristically dense, poetic prose illuminating the tension between Ellen's cultivated English exterior and the raw instincts that emerge in the wilderness. As she endures captivity and ultimately finds her way back to colonial society, the narrative argues that the boundaries between the civilized and the savage are far more permeable — and far more constructed — than the Victorian world would care to admit. Widely regarded as one of White's masterworks, this Booker Prize-winning author's novel stands as a towering achievement in Australian literature and a timeless inquiry into what it means to be human.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Set against the raw, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century Australia, A Fringe of Leaves is a sweeping work of literary fiction that chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Ellen Roxburgh, an Englishwoman who survives a shipwreck only to be captured by an Aboriginal tribe. Patrick White draws on the true story of Eliza Fraser to construct a profound meditation on identity, civilization, and the primal self, as Ellen is stripped of every social convention and forced to confront the core of her own humanity. The novel's tone is at once austere and luminous, with White's characteristically dense, poetic prose illuminating the tension between Ellen's cultivated English exterior and the raw instincts that emerge in the wilderness. As she endures captivity and ultimately finds her way back to colonial society, the narrative argues that the boundaries between the civilized and the savage are far more permeable — and far more constructed — than the Victorian world would care to admit. Widely regarded as one of White's masterworks, this Booker Prize-winning author's novel stands as a towering achievement in Australian literature and a timeless inquiry into what it means to be human.