Memoirs of Many in One

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MEMOIRS OF MANY IN ONE
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PATRICK WHTIE
Elegant and outrageous, Alex Gray has as many 'lives' as a cat - from Cassiani, the nun with unexpected blue eyes, to Dolly Formosa, 'star turn' of Alex Gray's Theatrical Tour of Outback Australia.
Inhabiting a fantastic world of adventure, daydreams and recollections, Alex has finally settled in Sydney to finish her memoirs. She asks an old friend, Patrick White, to act as the literary executor and editor of her extraordinary diary. In this amusing, sparkling document she records, among other things, her exotic journeys overseas, her flamboyant religious escapades, her dramatic successes in experimental theatre and her present 'real-life' role as a suburban shoplifter.
'An irreverent and moving literary trompe I'oeil . . . bizarre and witty' - David Leavitt, author of The Lost Language of Cranes
To read Patrick White is to touch a source of power, to move through areas made new and fresh, to see men and women with a... Tovább

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MEMOIRS OF MANY IN ONE
FDITFO BY Z
PATRICK WHTIE
Elegant and outrageous, Alex Gray has as many 'lives' as a cat - from Cassiani, the nun with unexpected blue eyes, to Dolly Formosa, 'star turn' of Alex Gray's Theatrical Tour of Outback Australia.
Inhabiting a fantastic world of adventure, daydreams and recollections, Alex has finally settled in Sydney to finish her memoirs. She asks an old friend, Patrick White, to act as the literary executor and editor of her extraordinary diary. In this amusing, sparkling document she records, among other things, her exotic journeys overseas, her flamboyant religious escapades, her dramatic successes in experimental theatre and her present 'real-life' role as a suburban shoplifter.
'An irreverent and moving literary trompe I'oeil . . . bizarre and witty' - David Leavitt, author of The Lost Language of Cranes
To read Patrick White is to touch a source of power, to move through areas made new and fresh, to see men and women with a sharpened gaze' - Daily Telegraph
'Elegant, superbly intelligent, full of authority . . . Memoirs of Many in One is a distillation of several of the themes that have obsessed Mr White throughout his career. The new novel treats of role-playing, madness, the processes of the imagination, the search for salvation through the transcendence of art' - The New York Times Book Review Vissza