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Product Description: In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have provoked so many contradictory judgments...read more

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9780813115016 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, April 1, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe.

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9780813155494 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 7, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe.

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Product Description: "Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers." ―Annie Proulx"The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time--a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage...read more
By David Marr (other contributor) and Patrick White

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9781250028525 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, May 28, 2013), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers.

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In death, as in life, Elizabeth Hunter remains a callous, destructive vivisector of the lives around her, as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed in a Sydney suburb, and her housekeeper, nurses and solicitor dance attendance.

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9780312595326, titled "The Eye of the Storm" | Rep mti edition (Picador USA, May 8, 2012), cover price $23.00
9780099324218, titled "The Eye of the Storm" | New edition (Vintage Uk, November 16, 1995), cover price $17.75 | About this edition: In death, as in life, Elizabeth Hunter remains a callous, destructive vivisector of the lives around her, as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed in a Sydney suburb, and her housekeeper, nurses and solicitor dance attendance.
9780140186055, titled "The Eye of the Storm" | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1993), cover price $11.95
9780380002146 | Avon Books, January 1, 1975, cover price $2.50 | also contains Chaos Theory

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By J. M. Coetzee (introduced by)

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9780143105671 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, January 27, 2009), cover price $18.00

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By Thomas Keneally (introduced by)

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9780143105688 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, January 27, 2009), cover price $18.00

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Four socially and ethnically different people, living in and near Sydney, Australia, seek after visions of the good and contend with the everyday forces of evil that surround them

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9781590170021 | New York Review of Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $22.95
9780140186345 | Penguin USA, June 1, 1993, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Four socially and ethnically different people, living in and near Sydney, Australia, seek after visions of the good and contend with the everyday forces of evil that surround them

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Product Description: An overview of White's oeuvre, which spans some twelve novels and almost 50 years, from "Happy Valley" (1939) to "Memoirs of Many in One" (1986). The study suggests that White give each of his characters a particular imaginative horizon - Primitive, Jewish, Christian and Classical - and the author engages in close readings of the various novels, exploring the way in which these given horizons relate, or fail to relate to each othe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780773481718 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: An overview of White's oeuvre, which spans some twelve novels and almost 50 years, from "Happy Valley" (1939) to "Memoirs of Many in One" (1986).

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Offers six hundred letters by the Nobel prize-winning Australian novelist to family, friends, lovers, and public figures that reveal his personal and professional life and his opinions
By David Marr (editor)

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9780226895031 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Offers six hundred letters by the Nobel prize-winning Australian novelist to family, friends, lovers, and public figures that reveal his personal and professional life and his opinions

Product Description: During takes advantage of recently published letters and biographical information to rethink Patrick White's place in Australian history and culture. He argues that White's rather conventional modernist writings negotiated the end of colonial relations with Britain...read more

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9780195534979 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 18, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: During takes advantage of recently published letters and biographical information to rethink Patrick White's place in Australian history and culture.

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Product Description: Eudoxia is the consort of an elderly Greek who fancies himself a Byzantine emporer, Eddie is a hired hand in the Australian outback and Eadith is the madam of a London brothel. The central character in this book appears to all three, in France in 1914 and in Australia and London 25 years later...read more

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9780140186062 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1993), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Eudoxia is the consort of an elderly Greek who fancies himself a Byzantine emporer, Eddie is a hired hand in the Australian outback and Eadith is the madam of a London brothel.

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Product Description: These six novels and stories probe beneath the confused surface to expose the true nature of things. This book includes "A Woman's Hand", "The Full Belly", "The Night, the Prowler", "Five-Twenty", "Sicilian Vespers" and "The Cockatoos".

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9780140185829 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: These six novels and stories probe beneath the confused surface to expose the true nature of things.

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9780404152406 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1941, cover price $28.50

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9780140185263 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1993), cover price $10.95

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Product Description: Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment...read more

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9780140185843 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1993), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills.

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Product Description: This critical study considers Patrick White's 12 published novels, and traces the connections between his life and work. The novels from "The Aunt's Story" to "Memoirs of Many in One" are considered in terms of a number of overlapping contexts: White's ambivalence about sexuality, nationality and modernity; his evolving sense of the possibilities of the novel as a form; and the continuing presence of the themes, experiments and influences of the 1930s shaping his mature fiction...read more

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9780312089900 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This critical study considers Patrick White's 12 published novels, and traces the connections between his life and work.

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The life story of the Nobel Prize-winning author tells of his influential relationship with his Australian homeland and describes how his creative moods were often accompanied by savage fits of temper and a passion for privacy.

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9780394574356 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The life story of the Nobel Prize-winning author tells of his influential relationship with his Australian homeland and describes how his creative moods were often accompanied by savage fits of temper and a passion for privacy

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This collection of speeches by the Australian Nobel prize-winning author have provoked extreme reactions in Australia. While members of the establishment and parts of the media have dismissed him as a bitter old man, the young and needy have responded to him with something close to adulation.

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9780958949477 | Australia in Print, March 1, 1990, cover price $29.95

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9780958949460 | Australia in Print, March 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This collection of speeches by the Australian Nobel prize-winning author have provoked extreme reactions in Australia.

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By Peter Wolfe (compiler)

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9780816188468 | G K Hall, March 1, 1990, cover price $50.00

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9780889209596 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $54.95

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9781554585991, titled "Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White’s Fiction" | Reprint edition (Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, August 23, 1989), cover price $54.95

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Product Description: Many readers of Patrick White have been troubled or repelled by the complexity of his style, and this book addresses the issue by showing that White’s stylistic involutions and obliquities are functional rather than affected, and bear closely on the moral vision of the writer...read more

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9780817304072 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Many readers of Patrick White have been troubled or repelled by the complexity of his style, and this book addresses the issue by showing that White’s stylistic involutions and obliquities are functional rather than affected, and bear closely on the moral vision of the writer.

Product Description: Based on Jungian ideas about the archetypal patterns of the psyche, this study contests long-held beliefs about the work of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White--arguing that his fiction is dominated by the workings of his unconscious mind and that its symbolic patterns are those of a mother complex--and offers profound insight into the Australian consciousness...read more

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9780195548679 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 28, 1988, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Based on Jungian ideas about the archetypal patterns of the psyche, this study contests long-held beliefs about the work of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White--arguing that his fiction is dominated by the workings of his unconscious mind and that its symbolic patterns are those of a mother complex--and offers profound insight into the Australian consciousness.

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Tells the story of Alex Gray, a woman possessed by several varied personalities, and who sees life through a shifting kaleidoscope of reality

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9780670813209 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of Alex Gray, a woman possessed by several varied personalities, and who sees life through a shifting kaleidoscope of reality

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9780140094268 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of Alex Gray, a woman possessed by several varied personalities, and who sees life through a shifting kaleidoscope of reality

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Product Description: This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a necessary, redemptive, or facilitating failure...read more

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9780312598051 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1986, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner.

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9780805765588 | Twayne Pub, December 1, 1983, cover price $19.95

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