About this title: Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad, yet seeming less alien among the encroaching wildlife than among the inhabitants of Saraparilla. In the wilderness she stumbles firstly upon a half-caste aborigine and then a Jewish refugee. They each place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Existing in a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780140186345ISBN:0140186344
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Clean cover with tight binding. Cover creased with edge rubbing. About 25 pages have some pen underlining & margin notes mostly in first few chapters. Good reader/study copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1975-06
ISBN-13:9780380004676ISBN:0380004674
Description: Fair. Normal cover/edge wear, Pages have a small amount of writing and underling in text both inside front and back have writing, Binding tight, read more
Description: Good. 1590170024 NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASE! ! MUCH Earlier smaller reading copy only paperback same content exactly-Aside from newer introduction/afterward, the original text has never changed, OLDER Used Condition with cover discoloration, though book is holding together well for it's age, and has tons of age tan. Different cover, No writing or Highlighting, some spine creases, sold for content. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Seabury Press
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. Ex-Library---31 pages. Interior is clean and tight. Nice overall condition. Ex library copy. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Description: Very good. New York Review of Books, 2002, 3rd printing, 643 pages, trade paperback, tight, no owner's mark or underlining, cover crease. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781590170021ISBN:1590170024
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 643 p. New York Review Books Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Spine lines/sm Mended tear/clean Tight
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Morrow/Avon, New York, NY, U.S. A
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780380004676ISBN:0380004674
Description: Good. 0380004674 Book Description-Miss Hare lives alone in the ruins of her family estate in the 1960s suburbs of Sydney, attended only by her housekeeper Mrs. Jolley. In her wanderings Miss Hare meets Alf Dubbo, an aboriginal artist; Mordecai Himmelfarb, a Holocaust survivor; and Mrs. Godbold, a local washerwoman. Tender and lacerating, subtle and sweeping, Patrick Whiteâ?s boldest novel traces the personal and spiritual histories of these four lost souls toward the moment they meet and ... read more
Description: Mass Market Paperback. Fine++. First Thus/1st Ptg. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. collector's item. one faint corner crease. no other creases. read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Shelf and edge wear to jacket, including some small tears. Small pieces missing from top and bottom of spine. Light soiling. Price sticker. Solid copy with tight binding and clean pages. read more
"Equal parts annoying, depressing and upsetting. When I read books like this, I really want to know more about the author. I mean, what happened to him?! To be fair, Patrick White has written other books that have been enjoyed by people I respect. So while it is possible I might like something else he has written, I'm gun shy now and I have a long list of books I really want to read.
On a positive note, I love the cover art. I have seen the original in the Musee D'Orsay and it is a lovely painting. So thumbs up on that!"
"Its a scandal that Patrick White's works are so scarcely seen in bookshops these days. This is certainly one of the greatest works of Australian literature."
"The prose is at times, brilliant, and incredibly evocative, but I began to find it a little wearing in the later stages of the book. Perhaps I am simply too conditioned from years of reading plot based novels, or just generally lacking in patience, but in sections it dragged a little.
Nonetheless, the writing is at times extraordinarily beautiful, and I feel it was very much worth reading."
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