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Penguin Classics (1993), Paperback, 288 pages
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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 foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer reality.
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LibraryThing member georgekilsley
Patrick White is brilliant. The Cockatoos is a good introduction to his work.
LibraryThing member ivanfranko
Six stylishly written stories where the common thread might be the reaching of critical life situations that awaken characters to the patterns and habits that have underpinned them. Often these stories relate the incidents that bring about change or epiphanies.
Patrick White is brilliant, as someone
What annoys me are those reviewers who claim he's "not Australian enough" or "too English". A writer writes what he knows, and this is something at which White excels.
Patrick White is brilliant, as someone
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in these reviews below, indicates. Having read the bulk of his fiction, I concur.What annoys me are those reviewers who claim he's "not Australian enough" or "too English". A writer writes what he knows, and this is something at which White excels.
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288 p.; 7.7 inches
ISBN
0140185828 / 9780140185829