Voss
by Patrick White
Buy on AmazonNobel Prize-winner Patrick White is one of Australia’s great novelists and playwrights. This story is about Voss, a German explorer, and Laura, a young Sydney woman, who meet very awkwardly in a drawing room one hot afternoon. Voss embarks on a trek across Australia and writes her a series of letters, most of which never reach her; at the same time she writes letters he doesn’t receive. It turns out that the act of expressing their true selves in the small, shut-down environment of colonial A...
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"Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White is one of Australia’s great novelists and playwrights. This story is about Voss, a German explorer, and Laura, a young Sydney woman, who meet very awkwardly in a drawing room one hot afternoon. Voss embarks on a trek across Australia and writes her a series of letters, most of which never reach her; at the same time she writes letters he doesn’t receive. It turns out that the act of expressing their true selves in the small, shut-down environment of colonial A..."
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