{"product_id":"voss-patrick-white","title":"Voss - Patrick White","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"28\" data-end=\"243\"\u003eTitle: \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eVoss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"75\"\u003eAuthor: \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003ePatrick White\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"123\"\u003ePublisher: Penguin Modern Classics\u003cbr data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"160\"\u003eFormat: Vintage paperback\u003cbr data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"188\"\u003eOriginally published 1957\u003cbr data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"216\"\u003eThis edition reprinted 1974\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"478\"\u003eCondition: Fair vintage condition. Heavy shelf and reading wear with creasing, rubbing, edge wear, age toning, and marks to covers and page edges. Binding remains intact and text is fully readable. A well-worn but solid reading copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"908\"\u003eWidely regarded as one of the great Australian novels, \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eVoss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a haunting and symbolic reimagining of nineteenth-century exploration in the Australian interior. Inspired in part by the doomed expedition of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, the novel follows the enigmatic German explorer Johann Ulrich Voss as he leads a party across the continent into isolation, obsession, and spiritual dissolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1252\"\u003eFar more than an adventure story, the novel becomes a meditation on identity, religion, power, colonial ambition, madness, and the harsh metaphysical landscape of Australia itself. Voss gradually transforms from man into myth, while his strange psychic relationship with Laura Trevelyan forms the emotional and philosophical core of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1254\" data-end=\"1537\"\u003eDense, visionary, and psychologically intense, the novel helped establish \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003ePatrick White\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e as one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. White would later become the first Australian to receive the \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eNobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Astaroth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49116333932767,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/6815\/6383\/files\/IMG_5920.jpg?v=1778243807","url":"https:\/\/astarothbooks.com\/products\/voss-patrick-white","provider":"Astaroth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}