The Aunt's Story

By Patrick White

Book Overview

Paperback reprint in the TPenguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of the third novel by the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Generally considered his first major work, and the author's own favourite, it tells the story of spinster Theodora Goodman in three stylistically different sections. First published in 1948.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670141682
• ISBN13: 9780670141685
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Patrick White's "Aunt Story" is a literary triumph

Theodore was not like other women. She had no time for all the niceties that many take for granted. Afterall, she was stuck at home caring for her bitter,and senile Mother. On the eve of the Mother's death, Theodore begins an odyssey to discover the meaning of life and existence itself. A haunting tale that grips the reader with all the intensity and anguish that a book can muster. A quality book suitable for the thinking reader