The cockatoos : shorter novels and stories /
In their lyricism and power, these six stories rival the greatest of Patrick White's novels, compressing whole lives into brief moments and probing at the banal, conventional facade of bourgeois life to expose what lies beneath.
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Melbourne, Australia :
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