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A Fringe of Leaves
A Fringe of Leaves
Author: Patrick White
A historical novel of the human endurance of a woman sailing on a ship from Australia to England.She encounters a perilous journey to get there, via Singapore and the Cape of Good Hope.
ISBN: 287787
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 303
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Publisher: Viking Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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.
THE LONDON TIMES REVIEW
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Patrick White is a Nobel Prize winner
Book takes place in Australia in 1840s


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