- Middle-aged women, Fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author)
"With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and earnest.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Patrick White
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Viking Press, Vintage
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781741667585
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An Australian author, was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century.
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