In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.
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In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Fine in VG+ jacket. Neither ex-lib nor remainder. Hardcover with grey paper over boards and white quarter-cloth, in white and tan jacket with red and grey titles, 8vo. 260pp. Endnotes, b/w plates. Fine/VG+. Book is as new: bright, sharp and unmarked with especially tight, never broken-in binding and hinges. Jacket has closed 1/2" tears off upper edges (2 front, 1 rear; all internally tape-repaired); light rolling to panels over binding edges. Central panels clean and bright in Brodart.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. Black & white photographic illustrations. 260 pages. 8vo, white cloth-backed gray boards, d.w. (price-clipped, edgeworn, sunned). New York: The Viking Press, (1981). Library stamp at front endpaper. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
