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A half-mad spinster, an aboriginal painter, a washerwoman, and a Jewish refugee--all vision seekers--struggle with the evil around them. Australian setting.
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Prestige, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick White
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 532
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode, Penguin Books, New York Review Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781590170021
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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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