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A Fringe of Leaves
A Fringe of Leaves
Author: Patrick White
Shipwrecked on a verdant tropical island, captured by savage aborigines who strip, taunt, and abuse her, a young aristocratic lady clings desperately to Victorian respectability and struggles to survive. Stirred by the surging life-forces around her, Ellen Roxburgh discovers the primal longings within that she dared not acknowledge before. Clad ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380018260
ISBN-10: 0380018268
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 373
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Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A vastly enjoyable novel, and also a rather intense experience of human endurance; it requires a period of time to recover, when one has finished reading it, and that is something that happens only with the greatest fiction.
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Patrick White is a Nobel Prize winner
Book takes place in Australia in 1840s


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