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The Eye of the Storm Author: Patrick White

ISBN: 9780312595326 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 608 Published: 1 May 2012 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.24 x 12.45 x 2.69 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 await her demise.

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...

About the Author

Patrick White was born in England in 1912 to Australian parents and was educated in London. He is the author of twelve novels, including Voss(1957), Riders in the Chariot (1961), and The Vivisector (1970). In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. He died in September 1990.

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