- Title:
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The Solid Mandala
- Written by:
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Patrick White
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 19 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2019
- Available Date:
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September 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655619116
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Price
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Award winning author
Australian author
From Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White comes the story of two people living one life and share everything, except their views of things.
In The Solid Mandala, Patrick White draws a telling and touching portrait of twin brothers.
Waldo is the competent man of reason – he sees himself as the superior intellect. Arthur, accepted as a half-wit, is the innocent, God's fool, loving and outgoing in a blundering way. As they compete with and care for each other through half a century, their lives are inextricably intertwined – the two sides of man's nature forming a totality.
'He is more like Dostoevsky than Thomas Mann: his novels are maelstroms of the soul whose power resides in the nightmare detail which assails their protagonists. They testify to the beauty and contortion of the spirit as few others this century have done.'
Sunday Telegraph
'His most finished and powerful work.'
Sunday Times
'The theme is interesting ...'
Kirkus Reviews