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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.
- Patrick White
- 1948
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The Aunt's Story. Patrick White. 3.49. 604 ratings80 reviews. 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.
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Plot: Theodora Goodman’s mother’s death is a freeing experience. As the unmarried sibling, it has been Theodora’s lot to be a carer, the doting spinster, the aunt. Not helped by her unusual nature, her wanderlust, her apparent inability to please her mother in the same way that her sister Fanny always could.
Nov 25, 2020 · The Aunt’s Story, first published 1948, by Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1973. It was inevitable that I would have to ‘fess up to my early reviews of Patrick White’s novels.
Jul 30, 2020 · English. 336 pages ; 20 cm. "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.
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The aunt's story by White, Patrick, 1912-1990. Publication date 1963 Topics Australian fiction Publisher Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin Books Collection
