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The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Read More..

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Description	The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has bequeathed to Australian society in general.Gleeson-White, Jane. In conversation with Ramona Koval. The Book Show. Sydney: ABC Radio National, 1 November 2007. "When we came to live [in Castle Hill, Sydney]", White wrote, in an attempt to explain the novel, "I felt the life was, on the surface, so dreary, ugly, monotonous, there must be a poetry hidden in it to give it a purpose, and so I set out to discover that secret core, and The Tree of Man emerged.".White, Patrick. Letter to Peggy Garland, 30 May 1957. Patrick White: Letters. Ed. David Marr. Sydney: Random House, 1994. 118. The title comes from A. E. Housman's poetry cycle A Shropshire Lad, lines of which are quoted in the text.The novel is one of three by White included in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. 1001 Before You Die website. Retrieved 1 May 2013. The others are Voss and The Living and the Dead.
Description	The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has bequeathed to Australian society in general.Gleeson-White, Jane. In conversation with Ramona Koval. The Book Show. Sydney: ABC Radio National, 1 November 2007. "When we came to live [in Castle Hill, Sydney]", White wrote, in an attempt to explain the novel, "I felt the life was, on the surface, so dreary, ugly, monotonous, there must be a poetry hidden in it to give it a purpose, and so I set out to discover that secret core, and The Tree of Man emerged.".White, Patrick. Letter to Peggy Garland, 30 May 1957. Patrick White: Letters. Ed. David Marr. Sydney: Random House, 1994. 118. The title comes from A. E. Housman's poetry cycle A Shropshire Lad, lines of which are quoted in the text.The novel is one of three by White included in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. 1001 Before You Die website. Retrieved 1 May 2013. The others are Voss and The Living and the Dead.

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Name	The Tree of Man
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Authors	Patrick White
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Language	English
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Country	Australia
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Pages	499 pp
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Media_type	Print (hardback and paperback)
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Oclc	247822285
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Publisher	Viking Press (US)Eyre & Spottiswoode (UK)
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Pub_date	1955 (US), 1956 (UK)
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Release_date	1955 (US), 1956 (UK)
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