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Language English Publication date 1974 Pages 308 Originally published 1974 Page count 308 Country Australia | 3.6/5 Goodreads Genre Novella collection Media type Print (Hardcover) ISBN 0-224-00992-3 Publisher Jonathan Cape Preceded by The Burnt Ones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories is a collection of six novellas by Australian writer Patrick White, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1974. Cape reprinted the book that same year. This was White's first published work after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The stories are copyright 1966, 1968 and 1974.
The third story, The Night the Prowler, was filmed in 1978. White wrote the script.
Contents
- A Woman's Hand
- The Full Belly
- The Night the Prowler
- Five-Twenty
- Sicilian Vespers
- The Cockatoos
References
The Cockatoos Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA