Patrick White

, . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: David Marr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 10 David Marr's Patrick White: A Life is a monumental biography worthy of its monumental subject - the reclusive, difficult, brilliantly gifted Australian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. Drawing on years of intimate access, interviews, and correspondence, Marr traces White's extraordinary journey from a privileged but emotionally starved colonial childhood to his decades of literary struggle, hard-won fame, and fierce public engagement with Australian life and politics. He portrays White whole: the savage wit and volcanic rages, the deep tenderness, the complex homosexuality navigated across decades of secrecy and then openness, and the long, devoted partnership with Manoly Lascaris that anchored his life and work. Marr never flinches from White's cruelties or contradictions, yet the biography is ultimately an act of profound understanding - a portrait of a man who transformed his loneliness, his spirituality, and his contempt for mediocrity into some of the most demanding and rewarding fiction written in the English language. Published in 1991, it remains one of the great literary biographies in Australian letters. …