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2 unusual facts about Flaws in the Glass


Manoly Lascaris

The relationship was not openly discussed until White published his memoirs, Flaws in the Glass, in 1981.

The Pea-Pickers

Not quite a critical response, but in his autobiography Flaws in the Glass, Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White, writing of his experience of the Second World War says "Otherwise I had dried up. There were stirrings of what I had it in me to write if there were ever a peace, but that didn't seem likely. So I read. I read The Bible, literally from cover to cover. I read The peapickers and was filled with a longing for Australia, a country I saw through a childhood glow".



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