The Cockatoos

by Patrick White

Book 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670226483
• ISBN13: 9780670226481
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Very Funny Satires

Human social hierarchy in juxtapose .White is the eye in the sky .Funny and very cleaver .

Great fun , Very funny insightful

Probably for an Australian audience.An insightful and amusing look at people and suburban obsessions.Very funny and little satirical though mostly rings true , still today.