The Eye of the Storm Contributor(s): White, Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312595328 ISBN-13: 9780312595326 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2011023755 |
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.55 lbs) 608 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In White's 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children--Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat--wait. It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who in the midst of disaster will look into the eye of the storm. An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . The Eye of the Storm is] an intensely dramatic masterpiece (The Australian). |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Patrick: - Patrick White was born in England 1912 and raised in Australia. He became the most revered figure in modern Australian literature, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. His books include Voss and The Tree of Man. He died in September 1990. |