Voss

Author: White, Patrick

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 21 July 1994 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 464 pages
198 x 130 x 28 | 324g

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANESet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Laura, waiting in Sydney, moves through the months of separation as if they were a dream and Voss the only reality.