Voss
by:
Patrick White (author)
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." Set in nineteenth-century...
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Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passi
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Modern,
Modern Classics,
Nobel Prize,
Australia
Why wasn't this in my World Lit courses?I hit the spoiler button because I will warn would be readers the book does have animal death issues, such as with dogs and horses. You know how some food is seemingly plain, but isn’t. Like a real good risotto. Rice, cheese, stock, maybe mushrooms and onio...
Patrick White penned a very strange tale, a tale I think would fair better through a second reading. First time round, I found it rather deceptive. It’s a psychological tale, yet the thoughts and feelings of these characters seem distanced, almost intangible. Like the landscape Voss is traversing, t...
Now why doesn't it surprise me that not one of my well read high brow friends, Australian or otherwise, has read this Nobel Prize winner?Let alone reviewed it....I'd do it myself, but why bother when Fred Dagg has this to say about writing The Great Australian Novel. Australians, if you haven't hear...
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