The Tree of Man
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:27th Oct '94
Should be back in stock very soon
An extraordinary story about a couple's experience of moving into the remote Australian wilderness by Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White.
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.
[This is] one of those magnificent novels given to us when a great writer is in perfect harmony with the mythic soul of humanity -- Carmen Callil * Guardian *
He is, in the finest sense, a world novelist * Guardian *
His greatest novel, The Tree of Man is a tragic pastoral about the penitential struggle with nature in a grim Australian Eden -- Peter Conrad * Observer *
The novel has unforgettable scenes, marvellous characters, wide ranges of mood, strikingly fresh imagery - all those ingredients which make a novel...become a permanent part of our memory * Washington Post *
A timeless work of art from which no essential element of life has been omitted * New York Times Book Review *
This novel describes almost the entire lifetimes of a husband and wife living simply on a farmstead in the Australian bush, in ceaselessly interesting, dramatic prose. You won’t read anything else like it * Week *
ISBN: 9780099324515
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 28mm
Weight: 329g
480 pages