SOURCE: “More Burnt Ones: Patrick White's ‘The Cockatoos,’” in World Literature Written in English, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1975, pp. 520-24.
In the following essay, Beston asserts that the short story form “does not offer White the space he needs for his greatest strength,” which is the portrayal of his characters' fantasies.
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