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SECONDHAND BOOKS – 2 BOOK BUNDLE
Patrick White: A Life
Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays – including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair – left behind him a reputation for intense privacy and sometimes savage temper. He was better known for long-held grudges and strained loyalties than for lasting friendships.
David Marr’s brilliant biography is, under these circumstances, all the more remarkable. It draws not only on a wide range of original research but also on the single most difficult and important source of all: Patrick White himself, Marr had White’s help throughout the six years the biography took to write. White asked for no right of veto and in the weeks before his death read the final manuscript which, for richness of detail, authority and balance is stunning.
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Patrick White: Letters
Patrick White spent his life writing letters. He wanted them all burnt, but thousands survive to reveal him as one of the greatest letter-writers of his time. Patrick White: Letters is an unexpected and final volume of wonderful prose by Patrick White. Only a few scraps of his letters have been published before. Here his 70-year correspondence sees the light of day for the first time.
Specifications:
Condition: Both fair – general wear to edges of dustjacket, some binding tearing to Patrick White: A Life
Year/s: 1991 and 1994
Publisher/s: Random House Australia
Format: Hardbacks, with dustjackets
ISBN/S: 9780091825850 and 9780091829926
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