The Eye of the Storm: A Novel

by Patrick White

Overview

Nobel Prize winner Patrick White's masterpiece, The Eye of the Storm, the basis for the film starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davies, and Geoffrey Rush.

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429977302
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	05/08/2012
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	866,523
File size:	604 KB

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.

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.

Editorial Reviews

Beautiful and heroic...Every passage merits attention and gives satisfaction.” —The New York Times Book Review

“In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual's quest for ‘meaning and design' can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose.” —The Sunday Times (London)

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