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Laden Choirs - The Fiction of Patrick White (Paperback)
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Laden Choirs - The Fiction of Patrick White (Paperback)
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In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize
for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and
change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller
in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read,
and few writers of today have provoked so many contradictory
judgments. Now Peter Wolfe has written the first book-length study
of the work of this brilliant and haunting novelist. The study
offers a subtle, penetrating examination of White's style, his
skill in building narrative tension, and also the depth and
complexity reflected in his characterization, which, in his novels,
always dominates action. Fittingly, for a writer whose novels bear
the indelible stamp of Australia, the study also examines White's
psychological use of setting and the intense sense of place found
in his work. No other critical study of White covers such a broad
range of his writing. Peter Wolfe considers here the entire canon
of the novels. The Tree of Man, Voss, The Vivisector, The Eye of
the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, and The Twyborn Affair (White's most
recent novel) are all discussed. White's themes and settings range
from the power and immensity of the wilderness of the Australian
outback to the dislocations wrought in traditional values by
postwar industrialization and urban sprawl. Laden Choirs makes
accessible to an American audience a writer of the first rank,
whose work lies at the heart of modernist concerns. Literary
students and scholars who wish to explore the world of Patrick
White will find this book an essential key.
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