Flaws in the Glass is Australian writer

Writer

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 Patrick White

Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...

's autobiography

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, published in 1981.

The first 150 pages are given over to an introspective "Self Portrait". Two sections, "Journeys" and "Episodes and Epitaphs" follow. The "Journeys" are a colourful description of White and Manoly

Manoly Lascaris

Emmanuel George "Manoly" Lascaris was the life partner of the Australian novelist and dramatist Patrick White. Lascaris was born in Cairo in 1912, the son of an American woman and her wealthy Greek-Egyptian husband. Lascaris met White while they both were servicemen in the Second World War...

s' movement about the Greek mainland and its many islands. The final section illustrates White's prickly, socialist, republican, and poetic agenda.
"My pursuit of that razor-blade truth has made me a slasher", White concludes, "Not that I don't love and venerate in several senses - before all, pureness of heart and trustfulness."