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Voss / Patrick White ; with an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library ; 347Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2012]Copyright date: ©1957Description: xxxix, 428 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307961495 (US : hardcover)
  • 9781841593470 (UK : hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.914 WHI 23 023268
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3.W5 V63 2012
Summary: 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.
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"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.

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