Happy Valley

By: Patrick White, Peter Craven (Introduction by)

Hardcover | 22 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Patrick White’s magnificent debut novel—first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.

Based on Patrick White’s own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern 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.

White was twenty-seven when Happy Valley was published by George C. Harrop in London. This mesmerising first novel gives us a prolonged glimpse of literary genius in the making. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941, but White 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.

Happy Valley is the missing piece in the extraordinary jigsaw of White’s work.

Industry Reviews

"Happy Valley will be a joy for any fan. Here we see a sensibility not so much forming as finding, and owning, itself."
Weekend Australian

"This is a remarkable first novel, already discernible as the performance of a master whose apprentice work cannot be glimpsed."
Canberra Times

"White is a mesmerising narrator whose prose illuminates the most ordinary object and event in new and gripping ways."
Thomas Keneally, Guardian

"White’s main focus, as in his great later novels, is the thwarted spiritual yearning of his characters. But this is also a superb anatomy of Australian society."
Metro Magazine (NZ)

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