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The aunt's story / Patrick White.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F WHIT	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780143791027 (paperback)
Classification	F WHIT
Personal Name	White, Patrick, 1912-1990
Title	The aunt's story / Patrick White.
Production & Copyright Details	[Melbourne, Vic.] : Penguin Books, 2018.
Production & Copyright Details	©1976.
Physical Description	336 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type	text
Note	Originally published in Great Britain by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948.
Summary Note	With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating other people's lives, even in love and pity, can lead to madness. Her ability to reconcile joy and sorrow is an unbearable torture to her. On the journey home, Theodora finds there is little to choose between the reality of illusion and the illusion of reality. She looks for peace, even if it is beyond the borders of insanity.
Subject - Topical Term	Middle-aged women -- Fiction
	Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
	Bereavement -- Fiction
	Travel -- Fiction
	Australian fiction -- 20th century