The Economist (US), July 27th, 1991
PATRICK WHITE:A LIFE. By David Marr. Jonathan Cape; 727 pages; 20[British pounds]. To be published in America by Knopf later this year.
THE subject of this magnificent biography went through a draft of it in the weeks before his death last September. The experience was so painful that he often found himself reading through tears. Yet he did not ask the author to cut or change a line. Patrick White had hoped his biographer-would treat him as a "real person" and his wish had been fulfilled. Australia's only winner of the Nobel prize for literature emerges from these pages as a ruthless, often...
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