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The Aunt's Story

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • Published: 27/10/1994

  • ISBN: 9780099324010

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 203g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Aunt's Story

Patrick White

With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating other people's lives, even in love and pity, can lead to madness.
Her ability to reconcile joy and sorrow is an unbearable torture to her. On the journey home, Theodora finds there is little to choose between the reality of illusion and the illusion of reality. She looks for peace, even if it is beyond the borders of insanity...

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • Published: 27/10/1994

  • ISBN: 9780099324010

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 203g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Patrick White

Patrick White was born in England in 1912. His Australian parents took him home when he was six months old but educated him in England, at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where his first novel, Happy Valley, was published to some acclaim in 1939. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War he returned to Australia with his partner, Manoly Lascaris. The novels, short stories and plays that followed The Tree of Man in 1956 made White a considerable figure in world literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Hanging Garden was begun and put aside in 1981 when White was lured away to write once again for the theatre. The unfinished novel was found among his papers after his death in September 1990 and published in 2012.

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