Description: Nobel Prize winner White's 1973 classic is now adapted as a major motion picture, starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, and Geoffrey Rush.
Brief description: Patrick White was born in England 1912 and raised in Australia. He became the most revered figure in modern Australian literature, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. His books include Voss and The Tree of Man. He died in September 1990.
Review Quotes:
"Beautiful and heroic...Every passage merits attention and gives satisfaction." --The New York Times Book Review
"In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual's quest for 'meaning and design' can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose." --The Sunday Times (London)