Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait - Softcover

White, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140062939 ISBN 13: 9780140062939

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1983

Synopsis

This memoir covers the Nobel laureate's lifetime from his early childhood to his sixties and from Sydney, through English public school, service in the North African campaign of World War II, and permanent return to Australia

About this title

About the Author:

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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war.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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140062939
• ISBN 13: 9780140062939
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272