The Aunt's Story is the third published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Theodora Goodman, a lonely middle-aged woman who travels to France after the death of her mother, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphanic revelation.
The sun was still a manageable ball above the ringing hills as Lou went outside. She walked through this stiff landscape, carrying her cold and awkward hands. She thought about the cardboard aunt, Aunt Theodora Goodman, who was both a kindness and a darkness. Lou touched the sundial, on which the time had remained frozen. She was afraid, and sad, because there was some great intolerable pressure from which it is not possible to escape. Lou looked back over her shoulder, and ran.
Although the novel was shunned by the reading public upon its initial publication in 1948, White himself expressed a personal fondness for it: "It is the one I have most affection for," he wrote in 1959, "and I always find it irritating that only six Australians seem to have liked it."[1]
External linksedit
Excerpts from the novel at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.
Synopsis and interpretation by Alan Lawson at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.
Referencesedit
^White, Patrick. Letter to Geoffrey Dutton, 13 December 1959. Patrick White: Letters. Ed. David Marr. Sydney: Random House, 1994. 160.
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