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The Tree of Man
Patrick White
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Description for The Tree of Man
Paperback. At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams. The author won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099324515
SKU
V9780099324515
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About 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.
Reviews for The Tree of Man
[This is] one of those magnificent novels given to us when a great writer is in perfect harmony with the mythic soul of humanity
Carmen Callil
Guardian
He is, in the finest sense, a world novelist
Guardian
His greatest novel, The Tree of Man is a tragic pastoral about the penitential struggle with nature in a grim Australian Eden
Peter Conrad
Observer
The novel has unforgettable scenes, marvellous characters, wide ranges of mood, strikingly fresh imagery - all those ingredients which make a novel...become a permanent part of our memory
Washington Post
A timeless work of art from which no essential element of life has been omitted
New York Times Book Review
This novel describes almost the entire lifetimes of a husband and wife living simply on a farmstead in the Australian bush, in ceaselessly interesting, dramatic prose. You won’t read anything else like it
Week
Carmen Callil
Guardian
He is, in the finest sense, a world novelist
Guardian
His greatest novel, The Tree of Man is a tragic pastoral about the penitential struggle with nature in a grim Australian Eden
Peter Conrad
Observer
The novel has unforgettable scenes, marvellous characters, wide ranges of mood, strikingly fresh imagery - all those ingredients which make a novel...become a permanent part of our memory
Washington Post
A timeless work of art from which no essential element of life has been omitted
New York Times Book Review
This novel describes almost the entire lifetimes of a husband and wife living simply on a farmstead in the Australian bush, in ceaselessly interesting, dramatic prose. You won’t read anything else like it
Week