- Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (6 July 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140185844
- ISBN-13: 978-0140185843
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,753,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A young man, at the turn of the century, takes a wife and makes a home in the wilderness of Australia. Stan Parker becomes a small farmer: he accepts life as he finds it. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book a couple of years ago now and it was one of the most satisfying books I have ever read.
It tracks the life of a husband and wife who settle in the fringes of the outback. It works through their hopes and aspirations, the birth of their children, their middle-aged disillusionment and their ultimate ends.
In point of fact nothing really happens in the book at all; these are just ordinary people, for the times. What does happen is that you are presented with an extremely powerful emotional picture of the main protagonists and their interaction with their environment. It tells us how the everyday, ordinary events these people experience turn them into what they are. The result is a gloriously truthful and unaffected portrait of humanity.
I don't know what the official rationale for the books title was, but what I think White is trying to say is that, here is man, occasionally glum, occasionally glorious, mostly mundane and of such stuff are we all made.
Read this when you finally get sick of all the fantasy heroes and heroines. Here's the real thing.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Protean and timeless, White's 1955 version of the creation story, here transposed to the Australian bush must be a good candidate for the best ever novel written by an Australian author. The plot is simple, elemental even, but something in the accumulation of details of the lives and thoughts of Stan and Amy Parker and the house and they create together in the stillness of the Australian outback manages to transform this novel into something magnificent. Stan's epiphany in the garden of the family homestead, as death claims him, is as moving as anything I have read. A worthy Nobel laureate.The Tree of Man
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Of course, the book itself is a masterpiece, and I am delighted to have it in e-book form, but did the publisher take the trouble to proof-read it before making it available for download? One can excuse a few typos in a free book which has been scanned by enthusiasts but not in a professionally published book for which real money is being charged. It is an insult not only to the writer but to the reader also. White is a writer one needs to read with care, and thus the typos are particularly hard to take. Five stars for the book but only three for the edition.
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Firstly, in all fairness I should give a warning about this novel, if you only really go in for fast paced narratives and books that speed along, then this will not be for you. Read more
Published 2 months ago by M. Dowden
best book ever
the book covers everything. the best i have ever read. the only book i have which is falling to pieces.
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