{"product_id":"happy-valley-text-classics-9781921922916","title":"Happy Valley (Text Classics)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHappy Valley (Text Classics)\u003c\/strong\u003e by White, Patrick. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781921922916.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Whites magnificent debut novel, available for the first time since 1939.\nBased on Patrick Whites own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro in southeastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is a jagged and restless study of small-town and country life.\nThis mesmerizing first novel is the missing piece in the extraordinary jigsaw of Whites work.\nWhite did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Its appearance now in the Text Classics series is a major literary event.\nPatrick White was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and is considered one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. Following his debut, Happy Valley, White went on to publish twelve novels, including The Aunt’s Story, Voss, The Eye of the Storm, and The Twyborn Affair. He died in 1990, aged seventy-eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brand: Text Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44989467951157,"sku":"ByrdShop_1921922915","price":89.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781921922916_f0c13bf3-bf4a-4aa8-9d72-5873c3f098aa.jpg?v=1778790243","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/happy-valley-text-classics-9781921922916","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}