Patrick White

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born

May 28, 1912 in Knightsbridge, London, England, The United Kingdom

died

September 30, 1990

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male

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Sidney Nolan

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Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until death, he published twelve novels, two short story collections, eight plays, and non-fiction. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantages and the stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature."

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Average rating: 3.77 · 1,662 ratings · 186 reviews · 54 distinct works

	Voss 3.71 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1957 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Tree Of Man 3.89 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1955 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Vivisector 3.88 avg rating — 163 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	Riders in the Chariot 3.88 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1961 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Fringe of Leaves 3.73 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1977 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Solid Mandala 3.98 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Eye of the Storm 3.70 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Twyborn Affair 3.85 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Aunt's Story 3.42 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1948 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Living and the Dead 3.56 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1941 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Patrick White

“I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.”
― Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair

tags: life , love

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“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”
― Patrick White, Voss

tags: imagination , truth

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“Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.”
― Patrick White, The Tree Of Man

tags: integrity

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