The Aunt's Story

The Aunt's Story

"The Aunt's Story" is the third published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Theodora Goodman, a lonely middle-aged woman who travels to France after the death of her mother, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphanic revelation.

Although the novel was shunned by critics and the reading public upon its initial publication in 1948, White himself expressed a personal fondness for it: "It is the one I have most affection for," he wrote in 1959, "and I always find it irritating that only six Australians seem to have liked it." [White, Patrick. Letter to Geoffrey Dutton, 13 December 1959. "Patrick White: Letters". Ed. David Marr. Sydney: Random House, 1994. 160.]

External links

* [http://arts.abc.net.au/white/excerpts/auntsstory_excerpt.html Excerpts from the novel] at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.
* [http://arts.abc.net.au/white/titles/novels/auntsstory.html Synopsis and interpretation by Alan Lawson] at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.

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