Voss /
White, Patrick, 1912-1990.
Voss / Patrick White ; with an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare. - xxxix, 428 pages ; 21 cm - Everyman's library ; 347 . - Everyman's library, 347 .
"This is a Borzoi book."
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, "Voss" is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passion between the explorer Voss and the young orphan Laura. As Voss is tested by hardship, mutiny, and betrayal during his crossing of the brutal Australian desert, Laura awaits his return in Sydney, where she endures their months of separation as if her life were a dream and Voss the only reality. Marrying a sensitive rendering of hidden love with a stark adventure narrative, "Voss" is a novel of extraordinary power and virtuosity from a twentieth-century master.
English.
9780307961495 (US : hardcover) 9781841593470 (UK : hardcover)
2013498734
Explorers--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Australia--History--1788-1900--Fiction.
Australia--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Love stories.
PR9619.3.W5 / V63 2012
823.914 WHI / 023268
Voss / Patrick White ; with an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare. - xxxix, 428 pages ; 21 cm - Everyman's library ; 347 . - Everyman's library, 347 .
"This is a Borzoi book."
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, "Voss" is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passion between the explorer Voss and the young orphan Laura. As Voss is tested by hardship, mutiny, and betrayal during his crossing of the brutal Australian desert, Laura awaits his return in Sydney, where she endures their months of separation as if her life were a dream and Voss the only reality. Marrying a sensitive rendering of hidden love with a stark adventure narrative, "Voss" is a novel of extraordinary power and virtuosity from a twentieth-century master.
English.
9780307961495 (US : hardcover) 9781841593470 (UK : hardcover)
2013498734
Explorers--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Australia--History--1788-1900--Fiction.
Australia--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Love stories.
PR9619.3.W5 / V63 2012
823.914 WHI / 023268