The Tree of Man
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The Tree of Man
Narrated by:
Humphrey Bower
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Narrated by:
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Humphrey Bower
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Patrick White
About this listen
An extraordinary story about a couple’s experience of moving into the remote Australian wilderness.
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company, journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife, Amy, to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.
©2019 Patrick White (P)2019 Bolinda PublishingMust Read
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It's not an easy read: there is not a wasted word, and you need to read thoughtfully every second to catch all of the rich scene White is depicting.
But it's a rich fruit cake of a book, a lively and thoughtful picture of human lives, where the "exciting" events - war, bushfires - are interesting for what they mean to people and do to people.
This audio version is well done, though the reader does not fully match White's genius, and this jars occasionally, but few readers could do better, I expect. Hearing The Tree of Man makes it markedly more approachable for me at least, and I wish I'd come across this earlier.
A wonderful book enhanced by a good reader
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The Definitive Australian Novel
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So Australian. So wonderful.
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very hard to follow when listening to in parts
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exceedingly long
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Performance was pretty good - the only thing that helped me get through this dry, dreary book.
Hard to read, as sentences were often long-winded & lacking in, what I would think, is basic sentence structures. The length of this book is not justified by the story, or should I say, lack there of a story.
It is also placed in an era reeking of colonialism & false narratives from brutal white squatters. Hard to see past this hierarchical racism & awful representation of the Australian landscape.
As an Irish person I was deeply offended by Patrick’s way of ‘writing’ the way he assumes Irish people talk, even extending this awful way of writing to include German & Greek people - how about we avoid reducing people from varying parts of the world to such cruel & problematic stereotyping.
If anyone should, of their own volition, want to read this book… put it up to 2.0 speed, save yourself the eleven hours I will never get back.
Forced to read for uni, would not otherwise.
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