Patrick White wrote Australian literary fiction about isolation, faith, ambition and people struggling against the landscapes and social roles that contain them. Voss follows an explorer crossing the Australian interior and the strange spiritual connection he forms with Laura Trevelyan in Sydney. The Tree of Man traces a farming couple across decades of work, family and hardship, while Riders in the Chariot brings together several outsiders in suburban Australia. White’s prose can be dense, symbolic and psychologically intense, moving between satire and visionary imagery. Voss and The Tree of Man are the most representative starting points for White’s fiction, where landscape and social isolation are treated with a dense, symbolic style that demands more patience than conventional historical narrative. Read more Less
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