# The Burnt Ones

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- Authors: [Patrick White](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-white)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1995-11-16

## Description

Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A young man strangely moved into marriage with a girl like the mother who never understood him. . . A pretty market researcher who learns the ultimate details of love with a difference. . . The collector of bird-calls who unwittingly records the call of a very human nature.

## Editions

### The Burnt Ones

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9932-411-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1995-11-16
- Language: en_GB