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Né en 1912, décédé en 1990, Patrick White est le lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature de 1973 et l’unique écrivain australien à avoir été distingué par cette récompense. Il est l’auteur de nombreux recueils de nouvelles, pièces de théâtre et romans dont Eden-ville, Défauts dans le miroir, Des morts et des vivants, tous publiés en France chez Gallimard et pour l’essentiel disponibles dans les collections « Du monde entier » et « L’Imaginaire ».

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Les Cacatoès

Nathalie Pavec , Jean-Marc Victor , Patrick White

Editions Gallimard

2021-11-04

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Six histoires.Six lieux : la Grèce, la Sicile, l’Égypte et plusieurs points de l’Australie.Six incidents — passés, présents ou à venir. Une question commune : comment les différents personnages feront-ils face à ces circonstances inattendues ? Ainsi...

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19 Livre(s)


Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Henry Daniel Thielcke Patrick White Cet ouvrage retrace le parcours d’un peintre méconnu, sa biographie et son passage au Québec entre 1832 et 1854. Il est accompagné d'images en couleurs illustrant l’oeuvre de Thielcke. Editeur : Presses de l'Université Laval Parution : 2022-02-02 PDF 23,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Feuilleter Le jardin suspendu Françoise Pertat , Patrick White Alors que la Seconde Guerre mondiale fait rage en Europe, deux enfants sont envoyés en Australie, à l’abri des combats qui ont coûté la vie à plusieurs de leurs proches. Gilbert, jeune garçon réchappé du Blitz londonien, et Eirene, fille d’un résistant communiste grec,... Editeur : Editions Gallimard Parution : 2015-01-15 Collection : Hors série Littérature PDF, ePub 13,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Growing Christmas Trees Lewis Hill , Patrick White Growing beautiful Christmas trees is a great way to generate off-season farm income and make better use of your land. From selecting a site and planting the right species to marketing and selling trees, this Storey BASICS® guide shows you how to build and maintain... Editeur : Storey Publishing, LLC Parution : 2015-02-27 Collection : Storey Basics ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Flaws In The Glass Patrick White The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows.... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2013-07-31 ePub 14,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Happy Valley Patrick White Happy Valley is Patrick White’s first novel, published in London in 1939 when White was twenty-seven. It was praised by, among others, Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen, and won the Australian Literature Gold Medal in 1941, but, fearing that he had libelled one of the... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2012-11-01 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Hanging Garden Patrick White Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2012-04-05 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Riders In The Chariot Patrick White WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUFThrough the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-06-30 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Patrick White Speaks Patrick White This collection of speeches by the Australian Nobel prize-winning author have provoked extreme reactions in Australia. While members of the establishment and parts of the media have dismissed him as a bitter old man, the young and needy have responded to him with... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-02-28 ePub 14,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Voss Patrick White WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANESet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-02-28 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Three Uneasy Pieces Patrick White In this book the author addresses the problem of growing old and the "warts of the soul" which, if gouged out, ruin the flesh. We must wait, he says, for the evil in us to die naturally. Presenting a peeled potato, a dance in the kitchen and a visit to the aged mother... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-02-28 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Fringe Of Leaves Patrick White Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-02-22 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Twyborn Affair Patrick White Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-01-25 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Solid Mandala Patrick White This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They even shared the same... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-01-11 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Aunt's Story Patrick White With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating other people's... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-01-11 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Burnt Ones Patrick White Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-01-11 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Living And The Dead Patrick White To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change -this is the dilemma explored in THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Patrick White's second novel is set in thirties London and portrays the complex ebb and flow of relationships within the Standish family. Mrs... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-01-11 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Vivisector Patrick White Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2011-01-11 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Tree Of Man Patrick White Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-12-23 ePub 8,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her.... Editeur : Vintage Digital Parution : 2010-12-14 ePub 8,99 €

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