The eye of the storm
By: Patrick White
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780312595326
Subjects: Adult children of aging parents; Older women; Families; FICTION / Literary; Storms; Fiction
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 . . . Eye of the Storm [is] an intensely dramatic masterpiece" (The Australian)"--