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A Fringe of Leaves
A Fringe of Leaves
Author: Patrick White
This novel by the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, first published in 1976, tells of an English woman who is captured by Aborigines after a voyage to Australia ends in shipwreck. In the experiences that follow, she discovers human savagery and her own sensuality. It has some basis in the true story of Eliza Fraser, who was sh...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140044096
ISBN-10: 0140044094
Publication Date: 1/3/1984
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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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