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The eye of the storm / Patrick White.
LIBRA PR9619.3.W5 E9 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Patrick, 1912-1990.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Adult children of aging parents--Fiction.
- Adult children of aging parents.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Storms--Fiction.
- Storms.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 608 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Picador ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2012.
- Summary:
- "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)"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 9780312595326
- 0312595328
- OCLC:
- 712116642
- Online:
- Cover image
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