This collection of speeches by the Australian Nobel prize-winning author have provoked extreme reactions in Australia. While members of the establishment and parts of the media have dismissed him as a bitter old man, the young and needy have responded to him with something close to adulation.
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Patrick White has written novels, short stories and plays, including Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Vivisector, The Twyborn Affair and, most recently, Three Uneasy Pieces. In 1973 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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