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A Fringe Of Leaves
  • Published: 1 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9781864711486
  • Imprint: Vintage Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99

A Fringe Of Leaves

From the Nobel Prize-winning author

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1 Feb 2011
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1 Apr 2010
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision.

Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of Australian Aboriginals, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
  • Published: 1 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9781864711486
  • Imprint: Vintage Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for A Fringe Of Leaves

In his major post-war novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual's quest for 'meaning and design' can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose.

The Sunday Times

A complete success . . . this is one of his best novels.

Paul Theroux, The Times

To read Patrick White . . . is to touch a source of power, to move through areas made new and fresh, to see men and women with a sharpened gaze.

The Daily Telegraph