Patrick White

Riders in the Chariot

Mitarbeit:Malouf, David

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Produktbeschreibung

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUFThrough the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 682576
• 1996.
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780099323914
• ISBN-10: 0099323915
• Artikelnr.: 13065306

Autorenporträt

Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war. He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.

Rezensionen

[A] monumental work [of more than] half a thousand pages -- almost every one of which cries out for quotation New York Times