{"product_id":"2026200017075-secondhand-the-eye-of-the-storm","title":"The Eye Of The Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Patrick White's monumental The Eye of the Storm lies Elizabeth Hunter, a formidable and once-beautiful Sydney socialite now confined to her deathbed, whose fierce inner life burns with far greater intensity than the diminished body that houses it. As her two estranged children — the vain, faded actress Dorothy and the emotionally hollow barrister Basil — converge upon her bedside, ostensibly out of duty but driven by the anticipation of inheritance, White constructs a devastating portrait of mortality, memory, and the corrosive nature of family. The novel's central irony is exquisite: it is the dying woman who possesses the most vital consciousness in the room, haunted by a transcendent moment of stillness she once experienced in the eye of a cyclone off the Queensland coast.\n\nWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 — with this novel cited as a key work — White writes with a prose style of extraordinary density and psychological precision, wielding stream-of-consciousness and darkly satirical observation in equal measure. His Australia is not a sun-drenched paradise but a landscape of spiritual aridity and bourgeois pretension, against which his characters' inner lives rage with Shakespearean intensity. The Eye of the Storm stands as one of the undisputed masterworks of twentieth-century literature in English, and the question it leaves burning is whether any of its survivors — children, nurses, or lovers — ever truly knew the magnificent, monstrous woman at its centre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269353218267,"sku":"2026200017075-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a62dad17-6b0b-45ee-a47f-793ed7ac094c.png?v=1788999228","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017075-secondhand-the-eye-of-the-storm","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}