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The Eye of the Storm

Patrick White

"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)"--

GenresOlder womenFictionAdult children of aging parentsFamiliesStormsLiterary

608 pages, 6 editions

English edition · First published 1980 by Picador · ISBN 9780312595326

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Editions

6 editions

English

  • The Eye of the Storm · Picador · 2012 · ISBN 9780312595326 This page
  • The Eye of the Storm · 2019 · ISBN 9780655615620
  • The Eye of the Storm · Vintage Books · 2011 · ISBN 9781742752587
  • The Eye of the Storm · Penguin Random House · 2010 · ISBN 9781446435052
  • The Eye of the Storm · Vintage Digital · 2010 · ISBN 9781446435045
  • Eye of the Storm · HarperCollins Publishers · 1980 · ISBN 9780318613765

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