Of all his novels, it is the most difficult. Moreover, I would not suggest Voss first. And when I did, I discovered why she felt she couldn’t really describe it more than to say that it had “great mystery and value.” Perhaps that is why his work has never found the wide audience it deserved, but, as we all know, it isn’t over until it is over. “Read Voss,” my first editor at The New Yorker told me.
In fact, he is one of the few writers in my experience whose work glows even more brightly than it did when I first encountered him in the early 1970s. Patrick White would have been 100 years old on May 28th, and although he has been dead for 22 years and won the Nobel Prize (the first Australian to do so) in 1973, his work, upon rereading, resonates as strongly and importantly today as when his novels were first published.
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His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White
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