SOURCE: “The 1960s,” in Patrick White, The Macmillan Press, 1980, pp. 83-7.
In the following excerpt, Kiernan observes that The Burnt Ones is marked by abrupt contrasts in setting, mode, and tone among the stories in the collection.
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