The Cockatoos

0-224-00992-3Preceded byThe Burnt Ones Followed byThree Uneasy Pieces 

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

  1. A Woman's Hand
  2. The Full Belly
  3. The Night the Prowler
  4. Five-Twenty
  5. Sicilian Vespers
  6. The Cockatoos

External links

  • The Complete Review on The Cockatoos.
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Works by Patrick White
Novels
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  • The Burnt Ones (1964)
  • The Cockatoos (1974)
  • Three Uneasy Pieces (1987)
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