The Aunt's Story (Penguin Classics) [Mass Market Paperback]

Patrick White (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1995 | Series: Penguin Classics

Traces the uncompromisingly independent career of Theodora Goodman from the dusty reality of Australia to the whirling madhouse of Europe before World War II, and ends calmly, although across the borders of sanity, in the USA.

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Patrick White was born in England in 1912. He was taken to Australia (where his father owned a sheep farm) when he was six months old, but 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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war; he returned after the war to Australia. 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 has turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as 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. Technically brilliant, he is one modern novelist to whom the oft-abused epithet 'visionary' can be safely be applied. He died in September 1990. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140186530
• ISBN-13: 978-0140186536
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,888,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Patrick White's "Aunt Story" is a literary triumph, June 22, 1998

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This review is from: The Aunt's Story (Penguin twentieth century classics) (Mass Market Paperback)

Theodore was not like other women. She had no time for all the niceties that many take for granted. Afterall, she was stuck at home caring for her bitter,and senile Mother. On the eve of the Mother's death, Theodore begins an odyssey to discover the meaning of life and existence itself. A haunting tale that grips the reader with all the intensity and anguish that a book can muster. A quality book suitable for the thinking reader