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Memoirs of Many in One Patrick White

Memoirs of Many in One By Patrick White

Memoirs of Many in One by Patrick White


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Memoirs of Many in One Summary

Memoirs of Many in One by Patrick White

'Edited' by Patrick White, these memoirs are a stage upon which the Nobel Prize winner himself appears, a supporting actor and anxious director of his many-faceted, spell-binding leading lady, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. Enter Alex: quick-change artist of many personae - re-enacting all that she has experienced in her various lives. We see her as Cassiani, the nun with unexpectedly blue eyes, sweeper of mouse droppings, lover of Onouphrios the monk, who is rejected by the 'Christians' of Nisos as an evil-eyed sorceress; as Sister Benedict, who on the Feast of the Kippers leads the frailest member of her order into the bush, there to learn the source of goodness; as Dolly Formosa, star-turn of 'Alex Gray's Theatrical Tour of Outback Australia', dispensing culture to a reluctant audience. These are just a sampling of a host of guises. We also see Alex in her suburban Sydney home, exasperating her daughter Hilda, who cannot imagine the great flights her mother's temperament requires and which the state of her mind allows.

About Patrick White

Patrick White, who was born in 1912, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. In making the award, the Royal Swedish Academy cited his writings as an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature. Mr. White is the author of fourteen books, including - the memoir Flaws in the Glass and the novel The Twyborn Affair.

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GOR011502740
9780253333117
0253333113
Memoirs of Many in One by Patrick White
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
19860403
192
N/A
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