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Happy Valley : Text Classics by White Patrick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The first novel by Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for literature, which has been out of print for more than 70 years. Originally published in 1939, Happy Valley is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains. Based on Patrick White’s own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is a jagged and restless study of small-town and country life. White was twenty-seven when Happy Valley was published by George C. Harrop in London. This mesmerising first novel gives us a prolonged glimpse of literary genius in the making. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941, but White did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Its appearance now in the Text Classics series, with an introduction by Peter Craven, is a major literary...

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Author

White Patrick

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781921961175

Category

work of fiction