{"product_id":"the-eye-of-the-storm-9780312595326","title":"The Eye of the Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize winner Patrick White's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Eye of the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, the basis for the film starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davies, and Geoffrey Rush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEye of the Storm \u003c\/i\u003e[is] an intensely dramatic masterpiece\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick White\u003c\/b\u003e was born in England in 1912 to Australian parents and was educated in London. He is the author of twelve novels, including \u003ci\u003eVoss \u003c\/i\u003e(1957), \u003ci\u003eRiders in the Chariot\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), and \u003ci\u003eThe Vivisector \u003c\/i\u003e(1970). In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. He died in September 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460122743058,"sku":"9780312595326","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6bbfb28-1f8a-470e-a2ea-618be1af5ae4.jpg?v=1730028879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-eye-of-the-storm-9780312595326","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}