But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasโperhaps rightlyโscathingly 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 KeneallyIt was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.
Thomas Keneally