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The Burnt Ones

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099324119

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 225g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Burnt Ones

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 unwittingly records the call of a very human nature.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099324119

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 225g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "Intensely original, dsturbing."

    Sunday Telegraph

  • "To read Patrick White...is to touch a source of power, to move through areas made new and fresh, to see men and women with a sharpened gaze."

    Daily Telegraph

  • "Patrick White's first collection of short stories confirms his strength as a creative artist."

    The Times

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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.

Patrick White

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