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The Tree of Man (Paperback)

by Patrick White (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (27 Oct 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099324512
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099324515
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 85,824 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams. The author won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A page by page accretion of worldly wonder, 13 Aug 2002
By J. Hughes "armachian" (Armagh) - See all my reviews
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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.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great novels in English, 9 May 2008
By Julian Le Vay (Oxford) - See all my reviews
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I took this on holiday more or less by accident and was knocked over by it. The theme - man sets up home in the bush, marries, has kids, grows old and dies - seemed less than promising. Within a few pages it was clear that I was in for an extraordinary ride. I think its the intensity and economy of his writing, and the combination of such sharp, colourful observation of the physical world, whether mundane or in catastrophe, with a Lawrentian intuition for what is really going on deep within his characters (though without DHL's frequent polixity, indulgence and authorial intrusion). (Perhaps the intuition goes a bit far sometimes - one character can hardly ask the other to pass the sugar without a lightening bolt transforming their understanding of life)

I think it is one of the great novels in English and am amazed how little recognised it seems to be. Read it!
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars best book ever, 9 May 2003
This review is from: The Tree of Man (Modern Classics) (Paperback)
the book covers everything. the best i have ever read. the only book i have which is falling to pieces.
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