.' reckoning w/ sadly under-read Patrick White, whose "books are metaphysical, lyrical, high modernist, full of baroque descriptions of landscapes, and unsparing in his examination of the people who live in them," is stunning. lithub.com/on-patrick-whi
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I have been meaning to write an essay lauding Patrick White for years, but never got around to it.
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Please make that essay an introduction to Tree of Man and get someone to get the book back into print.
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I want to get Twyborn Affair back in print.
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If somebody would reissue The Tree of Man, The Twyborn Affair, and a small, immaculate edition of The Night the Prowler, then I would be content.
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If I were a weird man, I'd say The Vivisector is his best novel.
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So off-putting! But definitely the best book of his currently available in the US.
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