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Patrick White's haunting vision of crazed old age
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19861214
Author:John O'Brien
Memoirs of Many in One by Alex Xenophon Demirjian GrayBy Patrick White. Viking. $15.95.
Like William Butler Yeats's Crazy Jane (" `Fair and foul are near of kin, And fair needs foul,' I cried"), Patrick White's heroine is a gruff, crusty, earthy, bawdy old woman who, through writing her memoirs, wishes to come to terms with her life and death: "Only when you're stranded amongst the human furniture, the awfulness of life, you've got to set out on a search to find some reason for it all."
White, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973, is enlisted by Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray ...
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