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The Cockatoos

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Cockatoos
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patrick White
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:308
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781925773606
ClassificationsDewey:636.5
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Text Publishing
Imprint The Text Publishing Company
Publication Date 4 June 2019
Publication Country Australia

Description

An essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series. 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 reality.

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 and served in the RAF, before returning to Australia after World War II. Happy Valley, White's first novel, is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains and is based on his experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro. White went on to publish twelve further novels (one posthumously), three short-story collections and eight plays. His novels include The Aunt's Story and Voss, which won the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Eye of the Storm and The Twyborn Affair. He was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1973, and is considered one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. White died in 1990, aged seventy-eight.

Reviews

'The Cockatoos...is superb. It is a slow, beautiful dance of love and death.' * Chicago Tribune Book World * '[White's] style in this collection of stories is taut and his language knowing, almost savage, in its ironies. Never does he swerve from a tone of complete authority, nor are his portrayals of human frailty ever less than bitingly perceptive.' * Baltimore Sun * 'To read Patrick White...is to touch a source of power, to move through areas made new and fresh, to see men and women with a sharpened gaze.' * Daily Telegraph (London) * 'White is a shifty, complex artist with the ability to hit and run at any point in his narrative - maintaining a distance from emotional involvement while inexorably tightening those screws.' * Kirkus Reviews * 'White's work is a towering achievement' * Courier-Mail *