The eye of the storm / Patrick White.
Publication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Vintage Books, [2011], c1973.Description: 608 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781742752587 (pbk.)
- A823.3 23
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library Stacks Collection, see staff | Fiction | WHI | Available | stax - First edition, Australian Classic | 056220 | |||
Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | WHI | Available | 051583 |
Previously published: 1995.
"A summer storm in Sydney drives Elizabeth Hunter, an ageing ex-socialite, to recall a mystical experience that transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, three nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But, in death as in life, Elizabeth remains a destructive force on those who surround her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a savage exploration of family relationships - and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, which define them."--Cover.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet.