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Happy Valley - Text Classics by Patrick White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Originally published in 1939, Happy Valley is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. I ...Show more
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valleypaints a portrait of a community in a desolate landsc ...Show more
Memoirs of Many in One: Text Classics by Patrick White; Sophie Cunningham (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime,Memoirs of Many in Onepresents the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of the ageing actor, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. These are 'edited' by the writer Patrick White, her friend and executor, who is often the target of her scorn. Witty and ...Show more
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$29.95 AUD
$36.95 (18% off)
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed--and stricken--with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend th ...Show more
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author.With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel.But creating o ...Show more
The Cockatoos: Text Classics by Patrick White; Gail Jones (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer r ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental ex ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse ...Show more
The Hanging Garden by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A previously unpublished novel from the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.