The Cockatoos

by Patrick White, Gail Jones (Introduction)

Overview

These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events – a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache – to expose a deeper, truer reality. Includes "A Woman's Hand", "The Full Belly", "The Night, the Prowler", "Five-Twenty", "Sicilian Vespers" and "The Cockatoos."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925773606
Publisher:	Text Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm. He was educated in England and served in the RAF, before returning to Australia after World War II. White published thirteen novels (one posthumously), three short-story collections and eight plays. His novels include The Aunt’s Story and Voss, which won the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Eye of the Storm and The Twyborn Affair. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1973. White died in 1990, aged seventy-eight.

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Here is a writer of genius.

Editorial Reviews

Superb. It is a slow, beautiful dance of love and death.”—Chicago Tribune Book World

“[White's] style in this collection of stories is taut and his language knowing, almost savage, in its ironies. Never does he swerve from a tone of complete authority, nor are his portrayals of human frailty ever less than bitingly perceptive.”—Baltimore Sun

“White is a shifty, complex artist with the ability to hit and run at any point in his narrative –maintaining a distance from emotional involvement while inexorably tightening those screws.”—Kirkus

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