The Eye of the Storm

"The Eye of the Storm" is the ninth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to farewell her in her final moments upon her deathbed. It is regarded as one of White's best novels, largely owing to the reputation it received from the Swedish Academy when they specifically named it as the book that confirmed White's designation as a Literature Laureate. [Lundkvist, Artur. [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/presentation-speech.html The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973: Presentation Speech] . "Nobel Lectures, Literature: 1968-1980." Eds. Tore Frängsmyr and Sture Allén. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company.]

External links

* [http://arts.abc.net.au/white/excerpts/eyeofstorm_excerpt.html Excerpts from the novel] at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.
* [http://arts.abc.net.au/white/titles/novels/eyeofstorm.html Synopsis and interpretation by Alan Lawson] at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.

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