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The Night the Prowler single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 The Night the Prowler
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form y separately published work icon The Night, the Prowler Patrick White , 1976 1976 (Manuscript version)11416648 11416639 1976 single work film/TV horror

'In a wealthy part of Sydney, Felicity Bannister (Kerry Walker) pretends she has been raped by a prowler, in order to take control of her own life. Her neurotic mother (Ruth Cracknell) is more worried about her daughter's upcoming wedding. Her father (John Frawley) is concerned that she's no longer a virgin. As the family's fragile structure crumbles, Felicity becomes a prowler herself.'

Source: Australian Screen (Sighted: 13/7/2012)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Noc lupeza
Language: Serbian
    • Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro,
      c
      Ex Yugoslavia,
      c
      Eastern Europe, Europe,
      :
      Rad ,
      1977 .
      Extent: 107p.

Works about this Work

“Splintering and Coalescing” : Language and the Sacred in Patrick White’s Novels Lyn McCredden , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 43-62)
‘In the years directly after World War Two, novelist Patrick White confronted a series of thresholds. Each one would take him further into his vocation as a writer of astounding, dense, haunting novels. The young Patrick White did not, of course, know this at the time. He first needed to cross the world, returning from his beloved London to become an Australian again. He had to begin writing about Australia, about being Australian, but not just this. He began to seek ways of writing about how meaning is made, in Australia and beyond; and how meaning is made alone, and in community. This struggle to make and unmake meaning, it will be argued, is a languaged, sacred struggle. ’ (Introduction)
Patrick White : A Centenary Tribute Neil Armfield , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 71 no. 2 2012; (p. 18-28)
New Acquisitions : Patrick White Letters Tracy Bradford , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: SL : State Library of New South Wales Magazine , Spring vol. 3 no. 3 2010; (p. 28)
Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla : The Politics of Conformity in White and Cheever Lars Andersson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 4 2006; (p. 432-442)
This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to each.
y separately published work icon Prophete dans le desert : Essais sur Patrick White David Coad , Lille : Presses Universitaires de Septentrion , 1997 Z218660 1997 selected work criticism biography
Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla : The Politics of Conformity in White and Cheever Lars Andersson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 4 2006; (p. 432-442)
This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to each.
Patrick White : A Centenary Tribute Neil Armfield , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 71 no. 2 2012; (p. 18-28)
New Acquisitions : Patrick White Letters Tracy Bradford , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: SL : State Library of New South Wales Magazine , Spring vol. 3 no. 3 2010; (p. 28)
y separately published work icon Prophete dans le desert : Essais sur Patrick White David Coad , Lille : Presses Universitaires de Septentrion , 1997 Z218660 1997 selected work criticism biography
“Splintering and Coalescing” : Language and the Sacred in Patrick White’s Novels Lyn McCredden , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 43-62)
‘In the years directly after World War Two, novelist Patrick White confronted a series of thresholds. Each one would take him further into his vocation as a writer of astounding, dense, haunting novels. The young Patrick White did not, of course, know this at the time. He first needed to cross the world, returning from his beloved London to become an Australian again. He had to begin writing about Australia, about being Australian, but not just this. He began to seek ways of writing about how meaning is made, in Australia and beyond; and how meaning is made alone, and in community. This struggle to make and unmake meaning, it will be argued, is a languaged, sacred struggle. ’ (Introduction)
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