Voss: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

White, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307961494 ISBN 13: 9780307961495

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2012

Synopsis

The Everyman's Library edition of this classic account of an epic physical and spiritual journey across the outback--by the only Australian writer to win the Nobel Prize--has a full-cloth, quality hardcover binding with a silk ribbon marker, and includes a chronology and an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare.

The character of Johann Voss is based on an actual nineteenth-century explorer, Ludwig Leichhardt, who attempted to cross the entire continent of Australia from east to west in 1848 but disappeared in the attempt. With visionary intensity, Patrick White imagines Voss's last journey across the desert and the waterlogged plains of central Australia. But this magisterial novel is also a love story, for the explorer is inextricably bound up with an orphaned young woman whose inner life, like his own, is at odds with the world. In language poetic and passionate yet grounded in shrewd, often comic, social observations and naturalistic portrayals of farmers, convicts, employers, servants, and aborigines, White creates both a spellbinding adventure and a myth for our time.

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About the Author

PATRICK WHITE (1912-1990), an Australian novelist and playwright, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. His novel The Vivisector was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307961494
• ISBN 13: 9780307961495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472