SOURCE: “Epiphanies in Tables and Goats: The Burnt Ones, The Cockatoos, and Four Plays,” in Patrick White, Twayne Publishers, 1983, pp. 87-103.
In the following excerpt, Weigel surveys the critical reception of White's short story collections and points out that White's short stories “employ diverse techniques for a wide range of effects like the author's novels.”
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