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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,
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      Jonathan Cape ,
      1991 .
      image of person or book cover 6695170118043970777.jpg
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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,
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      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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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Biography, History and Democracy : Contemporary Writing about Australian Lives Anne Pender , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 48 no. 2 2024; (p. 165-178)

'Biography is one of the most potent arts of democracy because it links the individual to the body politic and to history. It stands in parallel with independent long-form journalism. Whereas independent journalism is under threat, biography is currently one of the most popular and productive genres of publishing, breaking down the stratification of readership associated with almost every other category of writing. In the academy, the status of biography has transformed over the last few decades, with historians embracing the genre, literary studies scholars experimenting with form, and a wealth of new infrastructure embedding biographical inquiry in Australia. The biographical turn in Australia has brought the two disciplines of history and literary studies closer together and enriched their scholarship. David Marr’s Patrick White, Fiona Capp’s My Blood’s Country, Mark McKenna’s Return to Uluru and Alexis Wright’s Tracker are just some examples of the field over the last 30 years. This article considers the principles underpinning contemporary biography and its practice. It reflects on the particular challenges of writing about living subjects, negotiating intimacy and privacy, and the uses of empathic listening in biographical interviews. It also explores the value of collective biography as a genre of current significance.' (Publication abstract)

Sexuality in Patrick White’s Fiction Hong Chen , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 135-147)

'This chapter will build on recent work by Elizabeth McMahon and Christos Tsiolkas to situate Australia’s first Nobel Prize winner as a queer modernist with his own distinct political valence. Written by the foremost Chinese scholar of Australian literature, Chen Hong, this chapter explores Whites epochal career. It covers White’s novelistic oeuvre from The Aunt’s Story (1948) through to his late queer masterpiece, The Twyborn Affair (1979).' (Publication abstract)

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)
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,
    c
    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Europe,
  • c
    United States of America (USA),
    c
    Americas,
  • Alexandria,
    c
    Egypt,
    c
    North Africa, Africa,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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