SOURCE: “The 1970s,” in Patrick White, The Macmillan Press, 1980, pp. 123-24.
In the following excerpt, Kiernan shows that the short stories in The Cockatoos mimic the “satiric charicature” and the “poetic intensity” of White's novel Riders in the Chariot as well as the author's work during the 1960s.
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