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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Patrick White : A Life
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'Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biography draws not only on a wide range of original research but also on the single most difficult and important source of all: the man himself. Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Patrick White is a biography of classic excellence - sympathetic, objective, penetrating and as blunt, when necessary, as White himself.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Jonathan Cape ,       1991 .
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      Extent: 727p., [32]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 October 1992
      ISBN: 0224025812
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random Century , 1991 .
      Extent: 727p.
      Edition info: De Luxe Ed.
      Limited edition info: Limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography.
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 1992 .
      Extent: 727p., [32]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus. geneal. table, maps, ports
      Reprinted: 1992
      ISBN: 0091825857
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Knopf ,       1992 .
      Extent: 727 p., [32] p. of platesp.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      Description: illus., geneal. table, maps, ports
      ISBN: 0394574354
    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2008 .
      Extent: 680p., [32]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • With a new afterword.
      ISBN: 9781741667578
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Vintage Classics North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2008- Z1484482 2008 series - publisher
Alternative title: Wu bian de man tuo luo: Huaite zhuan.
Language: Chinese
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— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 121 1990; (p. 6-7)
Return of the Native David Marr , 1991 extract biography (Patrick White : A Life)
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 13 July 1991; (p. 1-2)
He Is My Sweet Reason David Marr , 1991 extract biography (Patrick White : A Life)
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 6 July 1991; (p. 14-26)
From : Patrick White David Marr , 2009 extract biography (Patrick White : A Life)
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1131-1135)
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Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Jonathan McBurnie , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
Books That Changed Me Robin Barker Robin Barker , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 31 May 2015; (p. 12)
Geoffrey Dutton : Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere Nicholas Jose , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 183-198)
The Unacceptable Self in Flaws in the Glass and Voss George Watt , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 215-221)
Patrick White : (Auto) Biography - A Veiled Confession? Jessica Geva , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 19-25) '...White's recourse to two particular autobiographical labels and modes (self-portrait and memoir) requires an appreciation of the complexity of these various models of life writing. In this essay, however, I shall be primarily concerned with White's technology of foreclosure of the confessional option.' (From author's introduction)
Off the Shelf Pamela Ruskin , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 30 August vol. 57 no. 48 1991; (p. 30-31)
— Review of Autumn Noel Beddoe , 1991 single work novel ; Patrick White : A Life David Marr , 1991 single work biography ; Bitterbloom Alison Stewart , 1991 single work novel
A Life Apart from Patrick White Drusilla Modjeska , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Society , August vol. 10 no. 8 1991; (p. 34-35)
— Review of Patrick White : A Life David Marr , 1991 single work biography
A Long and Varied Life Richly Told Brian Kiernan , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 July 1991; (p. rev 4)
— Review of Patrick White : A Life David Marr , 1991 single work biography
A Noble Life Lurline Stuart , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , April 1991; (p. 18)
— Review of Patrick White : A Life David Marr , 1991 single work biography
A Summit of its Own Thomas Shapcott , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1991-1992) vol. 1 no. 4 1991; (p. 94-96)
— Review of Patrick White : A Life David Marr , 1991 single work biography
y separately published work icon A Chinese Perspective on Australian Literature Aodaliya wen xue lun ji Wenzhong Hu , Beijing : 外语教学与研究出版社 外语教学与研究出版社 , 1994 Z1273961 1994 selected work criticism essay This bi-lingual collection of works published previously contains fourteen critical essays in Chinese and seven in English.
How Have Biographies Been Written and How Can They Be? Hazel Rowley , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , Summer no. 16 1992; (p. 139-143)
A Champion of Human Rights and Freedom of Speech Michael Walker , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Pen Magazine , November 2009; (p. 6-7)
"The Real Voss as Opposed to the Actual Leichhardt": Biography, Art, and Patrick White J. A. Wainwright , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 7 no. 2 1993; (p. 139-141)
The Solid Mandala and Patrick White’s Late Modernity Nicholas Birns , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011; 'This essay contends that the Australian novelist Patrick White (1912-1990) presents, in his novel The Solid Mandala (1966), a prototypical evocation of late modernity that indicates precisely why and how it was different from the neoliberal and postmodern era that succeeded it. Late modernity is currently emerging as a historical period, though still a nascent and contested one. Robert Hassan speaks of the 1950-1970 era as a period which, in its 'Fordist' mode of production maintained a certain conformity yet held off the commoditisation of later neoliberalism's 'network-driven capitalism'. This anchors the sense of 'late modernity,' that will operate in this essay, though my sense of the period also follows on definitions of the term established, in very different contexts, by Edward Lucie-Smith and Tyrus Miller.' (Author's introduction)
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Subjects:
  • 1900-1999
  • 1973
Settings:
  • London,
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    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Europe,
  • c
    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
  • Alexandria,
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    Egypt,
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    North Africa, Africa,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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