The Tree of Man
by:
Patrick White (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670728756 (0670728756)
ASIN: 670728756
Publish date: January 1st 1955
Publisher: Viking Books
Edition language: English
As I found out after reading, this is one of the most famous and most widely-read novels of the first Australian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although critically acclaimed abroad it wasn't much of a success in Australia when it first came out in 1955. It's the slow-paced life story ...
The Nobel committee said that [author: Patrick White] had 'introduced a new continent into literature'. White has taken my grandmother and my grandfather and written them with a clear and unflinching love, with a distant warmth and a wit as dry and subtle as gum leaves. I've fully bent three people...
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