The Tree of Man - Couverture souple

White, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099324512 ISBN 13 : 9780099324515

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war.
He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099324512
• ISBN 13: 9780099324515
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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