The Cockatoos, Paperback/Patrick White

Description 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. Includes "A Woman's Hand", "The Full Belly", "The Night, the Prowler", "Five-Twenty", "Sicilian Vespers" and "The Cockatoos." About the Author Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm. He was educated in England and served in the RAF, before returning to Australia after World War II. White published thirteen novels (one posthumously), three short-story collections and eight plays. His novels include The Aunt's Story and Voss , which won the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Eye of the Storm and The Twyborn Affair . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1973. White died in 1990, aged seventy-eight.