The Aunt's Story
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author.
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Paperback$12.95 RRPISBN: 9781741667585Published: 01/04/2008Imprint: Vintage AustraliaExtent: 352 pages
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EBookCHECK RETAILER PRICEISBN: 9781742743660Published: 01/02/2011Imprint: RHA eBooks AdultExtent: 344 pages
Synopsis
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author.
With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel.
But creating other people's lives, even in love and pity, can lead to madness. Her ability to reconcile joy and sorrow is an unbearable torture to her. On the journey home, Theodora finds there is little to choose between the reality of illusion and the illusion of reality. She looks for peace, even if it is beyond the borders of insanity.
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Patrick White has been hailed as one of the most important English language novelists of the 20th century and today would have marked his 100th birthday. Born on this day in England in 1912 he was then taken to Australia where his father owned a sheep farm. Patrick White was educated in England at Cheltenham College and King's College in Cambridge before settling...
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"Patrick White's third novel is a brilliant, original and highly intelligent piece of work. It is also, thank heaven, gay and witty - as well as tragic, sometimes profound." - James Stern, The New York Times Book Review
