Patrick White: A Life

by David Marr

Book Overview

The life story of the Nobel Prize-winning author tells of his influential relationship with his Australian homeland and describes how his creative moods were often accompanied by savage fits of temper... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394574354
• ISBN13: 9780394574356
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 727 Pages
• Weight: 3.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous biography about a not very likeable person

I found the biog hard to put down, unlike White's fiction which I find easy to put down! Marr has written a scholarly yet entertaining biography, and you really feel you come to know something about an Australian icon - our only Nobel laureate in literature.In everything i have read (including White's own portrait of himself, Flaws In The Glass) he comes across as a horrible man - a misogynist, but with some political principles with which I might agree.Nevertheless, that is not the point of literature, or art, to be loved by one and all. White's voice certainly added immensely to the cultural life of this country, and it is worth getting to know something about his life and works. Marr's book is an excellent place to start.