[This is] one of those magnificent novels given to us when a great writer is in perfect harmony with the mythic soul of humanity

- Carmen Callil, Guardian

He is, in the finest sense, a <i>world </i>novelist

Guardian

His greatest novel, <i>The Tree of Man</i> is a tragic pastoral about the penitential struggle with nature in a grim Australian Eden

- Peter Conrad, Observer

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The novel has unforgettable scenes, marvellous characters, wide ranges of mood, strikingly fresh imagery - all those ingredients which make a novel...become a permanent part of our memory

Washington Post

A timeless work of art from which no essential element of life has been omitted

New York Times Book Review

This novel describes almost the entire lifetimes of a husband and wife living simply on a farmstead in the Australian bush, in ceaselessly interesting, dramatic prose. <b>You won’t read anything else like it</b>

Week

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.
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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.
Les mer
An extraordinary story about a couple's experience of moving into the remote Australian wilderness by Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099324515
Publisert
1994
Utgiver
Vintage Publishing
Vekt
329 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Patrick White was born in England in 1912. His Australian parents took him home when he was six months old but educated him in England, at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where his first novel, Happy Valley, was published to some acclaim in 1939. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War he returned to Australia with his partner, Manoly Lascaris. The novels, short stories and plays that followed The Tree of Man in 1956 made White a considerable figure in world literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Hanging Garden was begun and put aside in 1981 when White was lured away to write once again for the theatre. The unfinished novel was found among his papers after his death in September 1990 and published in 2012.