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Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more
The Burnt Ones - Short Stories by Patrick White
22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
"Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A young man strangely moved into ma ...Show more
The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In The Solid Mandala Patrick White draws a telling and touching portrait of twin brothers. Waldo is the competent man of reason, he sees himself as the superior intellect. Arthur, accepted as a half-wit is the innocent, God's fool, loving and outgoing in a blunde ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
18.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic
This Patrick White masterpieceHurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision- his sister's deformity, a ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with cruel precision. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
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