Collected Short Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Collected Short Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patrick White
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:672
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreShort stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780099474678
ClassificationsDewey:823
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House Australia
Imprint Random House Australia
Publication Date 2 February 2004
Publication Country Australia

Description

In this collection of short novels and stories, Patrick White explores the gulf - by turns funny and unbearably sad - between life's expectations and its realities. With immense understanding and compassion, he captures the longings that underlie the relationships of men and women, and the tender pathos of the heart's secrets.

Author Biography

Patrick White was born in England in 1912. He was taken to Australia (where his father owned a sheep farm) when he was six months old, but educated in England, at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, when he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war; he returned after the war to Australia. 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 has turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as 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. Technically brilliant, he is one modern novelist to whom the oft-abused epithet 'visionary' can safely be applied. He died in September 1990.