The Eye of the Storm.

WHITE, Patrick.

$300.00

Item Number: 119085

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s ninth published novel. Ocatvo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Desmond Digby.

The Eye of the Storm tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to say farewell to her in her final moments upon her deathbed. A film adaptation of the novel directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Charlotte Rampling and Geoffrey Rush was released in September 2011.