"The pace of the book, the strength and power of the prose, the tension and dramatic force, were all there, but when the book strikes off into the deserts of mysticism, I am one of those people who would sooner slink home." - Kylie Tennant, Sydney Morning Herald.At its core is a haunting love story between the messianic Voss and Laura Trevelyan, the awkward young orphan he meets in Sydney before his journey." - Richard Rayner, The Los Angeles Times "White writes beautifully, precisely, and Voss is a heroic, brilliant novel."But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't "a nice man", and indeed was - perhaps rightly - scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century." - Thomas Keneally, The Guardian.It premiered at the Adelaide Festival in 1986, under the direction of Jim Sharman. Voss was made into an opera by Richard Meale, with a libretto by David Malouf.This was the first time the award was presented. Winner of the W.H.Smith Award (for most outstanding contribution to English literature), 1957/58.Awarded the Miles Franklin Prize (for best Australian novel), 1958.The Penguin Classics edition (2009) comes with an Introduction by Thomas Keneally.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author
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