This mesmerizing, ambitious, lyrical masterpiece is perhaps Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White's best novel.
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia,
where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He
was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College,
Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished
novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to
Australia after the war.
He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian
literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The
great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces
into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of
letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable
public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals
who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.
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