- Fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Families
As the children, friends, and employees of a dying octogenarian gather at her bedside, a life of anguish and yearning is revealed.
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Grave, earnest, spare and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick White
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 598
- Publisher
- Viking Press, Penguin Books, Vintage
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140039634
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About Patrick White · 1912–1990
An Australian author, was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century.
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