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Flaws in the Glass

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Flaws in the Glass
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patrick White
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 132
Category/GenreMemoirs
ISBN/Barcode 9781742759005
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House Australia
Imprint Vintage (Australia)
Publication Date 1 July 2012
Publication Country Australia

Description

A self-portrait that is as brilliant original as White's fiction and drama. In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.

Author Biography

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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war.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.