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The Burnt Ones

The Burnt Ones( )
Author: White, Patrick
ISBN:978-1-4464-3507-6
Publication Date:Feb 2011
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:CCV Digital
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $12.99
Book Description:

Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A young man strangely moved into marriage with a girl like the mother who never understood him. . . A pretty market researcher who learns the ultimate details of love with a difference. . . The collector of bird-calls who...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Author Biography
White, Patrick (Author)
Patrick White was born on May 28, 1912 in Knightsbridge, London, to Australian parents. He studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force. His first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939. His other works include The Tree of Man, Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Solid Mandala, The Twyborn Affair, and The Hanging Garden. He also wrote several plays including The Season at Sarsaparilla, Night on Bald Mountain, and Signal Driver. They never met with the success his fiction had and have not been produced outside Australia. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. He died on September 30, 1990.

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