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'Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world. With the tenderness and rigour of an old, wise novelist, Patrick White explores the world of these children, the city of his childhood and the experience of war. The Hanging Garden ends as the news reaches Sydney of victory in Europe, and the children face their inevitable separation.
White put the novel aside at this point and how he planned to finish the work remains a mystery. But at his death in 1990 he left behind a masterpiece in the making, which is published here for the first time.'
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The Boredom and Futility of War in Patrick White's Fiction
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , April no. 15 2016; (p. 65-73) This article investigates the representation of war in terms of uselessness and waste in the fiction of Patrick White, with a particular emphasis on the short story “After Alep”, written in 1945 when the writer was enrolled in the RAF as an Intelligence Officer. By analysing the story in the light of White’s approach to the war as to “the most horrifying and wasteful period” of his life (Marr 1992: 493), the article attempts to demonstrate how the narrative devices used by White contribute to demythologize the rhetoric of the war and of war heroes in a way that may be instrumental in conveying a message of peace out of the ultimate sense of futility transmitted by any war. -
Garden Plots
2015
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essay
— Appears in: Northerly : The Northern Rivers Writers' Centre Magazine , July-August 2015; (p. 12-13) An overview of Emma Ashmere's favourite gardens in Australian literature. -
Geoffrey Dutton : Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere
2014
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— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 183-198) -
在异乡成长——评帕特里克·怀特遗作《空中花园》
Growing up in an Alienated Hometown : An Analysis On The Hanging Garden
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: 外国文学动态 , vol. [2014] no. 2 2014; (p. 32-34) <正>澳大利亚作家帕特里克·怀特(Patrick White,1912—1990)1973年获诺贝尔文学奖,1986年发表最后一部小说《特来庞的爱情》,1990年去世。八十年代初,他开始创作小说《空中花园》(The Hanging Garden),但随后自传《镜中瑕疵》出版,引起轩然大波,令怀特应接不暇,又因致力于戏剧创作和全球反核运动. -
The Hanging Garden
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 280-290) 'Alastair Niven’s challenging speculation, proffered at the end of his incisive discussion of the novel The Hanging Garden suggests 'that this last work of White’s should not be regarded as a fragment abandoned by a writer in his declining years but is, in fact, the product of a confident artist still writing at the height of his powers.' (Source : Introduction, xix)
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The Last Word
2012
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 March 2012; (p. 32-33)
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Feature Review : Fiction
2012
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February/March vol. 91 no. 7 2012; (p. 28)
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The Intimacy of a Sketch
2012
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review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 24-25)
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The Final Chapter
2012
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review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 2012; (p. 23)
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She Who Moves My Bones
2012
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 340 2012; (p. 12-13)
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To Be Published at Last, the Novel that Patrick White Left Hanging
2011
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column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 March 2011; (p. 3) The Age , 1 March 2011; (p. 4) David Marr reports on the likely publication by Random House Australia of Patrick's White novel The Hanging Garden. The novel, held in manuscript form by the National Library of Australia, was written in 1981 as the first part of a projected three-part novel. Marr writes that White abandoned the novel 'in the middle of 1981 to plunge into politics and theatre'. -
A Pair of Ragged Claws
2011
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column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 March 2011; (p. 19)A column canvassing current literary news. Discusses recent writers festivals, the death of Hazel Rowley and the forthcoming publication of The Hanging Garden in 2012.
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In the Whites of Their Eyes
2011
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column
— Appears in: The Australian Financial Review , 30-31 July 2011; (p. 56-57) 'Fred Schepisi's The Eye of the Storm is set to garner a fistful of gongs, paving the way for next year's Patrick White centenary. But this drama of manners has only made it to the screen after a last minute bailout.' (p. 56)
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A Pair of Ragged Claws
2012
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column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 January 2012; (p. 21) Romei looks froward to important publications forthcoming in 2012, including books to mark Charles Dickens's 200th birthday, and new books by American and British writers. -
From Beyond the Grave
2012
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criticism
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 24 March 2012; (p. 12-14) The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 March 2012; (p. 6-7) David Marr constructs the timeline for White's writing of The Hanging Garden and the events that led to the novel's eventual publication in 2012.
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