The Eye of the Storm, (Paperback)

from GeoffSC

I only got to page 30. I found the language and descriptions too convoluted. I've got better things to do and lots of better books to read.

from baswood

Patrick White was 61 when The Eye of the storm was published, his mother Ruth had died six years previously and the novel would appear to be some attempt at coming to terms with the difficult relationship between mother and son. Ruth's final illness following a collapse was spent largely bed ridd...

from stillatim

More like 4.5. Eye isn't quite what I expected. My favorite White novels are plutonium-dense, deeply flawed in some way (i.e., there are totally gratuitous events, or the characters never seem to interact in any meaningful way--either on the realistic plane of, you know, dialogue, or on the intel...

from stillatim

More like 4.5. Eye isn't quite what I expected. My favorite White novels are plutonium-dense, deeply flawed in some way (i.e., there are totally gratuitous events, or the characters never seem to interact in any meaningful way--either on the realistic plane of, you know, dialogue, or on the intel...