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The cockatoos : shorter novels and stories / Patrick White ; introduced by Gail Jones.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F WHIT	Adult Fiction		Double Bay	. Available .

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Field name	Details
Record Number	848816
ISBN	9781925773606 (paperback)
Author	White, Patrick, 1912-1990 author.
Title	The cockatoos : shorter novels and stories / Patrick White ; introduced by Gail Jones.
Publisher/Date	Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019.
Publisher/Date	©1974
Pagination etc.	xv, 362 pages ; 20 cm.
Series	Text classics
Contents note	A woman's hand -- The full belly -- The night the prowler -- Five-twenty -- Sicilian vespers -- The cockatoos.
Summary Note	These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer reality.
Subject	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
	Australian fiction
	Short stories, Australian -- 20th century
	Short stories.
Added Author	Jones, Gail, 1955- author of introduction, etc.
Added title	A woman's hand.
	The full belly.
	The night the prowler.
	Five-twenty.
	Sicilian vespers.
	The cockatoos.
Shelf Location	F WHIT

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