Patrick White: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

David Marr

Community & Culture

Random House Australia: Vintage Books

'I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick White\nPatrick 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. In the weeks before his death, White read the final manuscript, which for richness of detail, authority and balance is stunning. 
Throughout his exciting narrative, Marr explores the roots of White's writing and unearths the raw material of his remarkable art. He makes plain the central fact of White's life as an artist: the homosexuality that formed his view of himself as an outcast and stranger able to penetrate the hearts of both men and women. Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Patrick White is a biography of classic excellence - sympathetic, objective, penetrating and as blunt, when necessary, as White himself.

Covers scuffed/edgeworn.This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.No dust jacket.

Vision

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd

Barwick

Travel

Australia & South Pacific

Allen& Unwin

‘The brilliant biography of one of Australia's most powerful men … a special book.'The Age‘The best biography written by an Australian … the best biography written about an Australian.'Sir Richard KirbyFor forty years Sir Garfield Barwick stood at the centre of power in Australia. He was an advocate who saved the private banks from Chifley and fought to destroy the Communist Party. He was the Attorney-General who reformed the divorce laws and the Foreign Minister who put Australian troops in Vietnam. He was the Chief Justice who broke down the tax laws, dramatically advanced the power of Canberra and gave Sir John Kerr the constitutional imprimatur to dismiss the Whitlam government.Barwick is the portrait of a complex and driven man who began life in the Sydney slums, a man totally committed to the exercise of power and utterly certain of the rightness of his beliefs. It is also a remarkable insight into the inner workings of Australia's supreme legal institution.Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award, Barwick is an Australian classic.

Barwick: 2nd edition

Professionals & Academics

Allen & Unwin Pty LTD

My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches

Black Inc.

It was the year of Wall Street's collapse and Australia's apology, of a film-world tragedy and an art-world scandal. In Best Australian Essays 2008, David Marr has selected great writing from a turbulent time. With eyewitness accounts from crisis zones and film sets, deserts and campaign trails, and tales of failing banks and wounded birds, hitchhiking and footy jumpers, mourning brothers and raising children, music, media, art, love and obscenity, these wonderful essays paint a vivid picture of the year that was. Contributors include: Christos Tsiolkas, Guy Rundle, Tim Flannery, Kate Jennings, Ed O'Loughlin, Robyn Davidson, John van Tiggelen, Don Watson, Cullen Murphy, Chris Hammer, Robert Manne, Les Carlyon, Rachel Robertson, Benjamin Law, Vin Maskell, Barry Humphries, Tim Winton, Robert Dessaix, Annabel Crabb, Anna Goldsworthy, Gerald Murnane, Inga Clendinnen, Cate Kennedy, Mary Ellen Jordan, David Malouf, Craig Sherborne, Gideon Haigh, Neil Armfield, David Marr, Simon Leys, Nicolas Rothwell.

The Best Australian Essays 2008

The Best Australian Essays A Ten-Year Collection

TIM FLANNERY

Christos Tsiolkas

Peter Porter

Robyn Davidson

Nicolas Rothwell

Simon Leys

Clive, James

Barry, Humphries

J.M.Coetzee

M.J. Hyland

Inga Clendinnen

Mark Riley

Christine Kenneally

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