PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780312595326
- Categories BX, BXOS, Classics and Literary, extraordinary, Fic20, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Whateversary
- Author(s) Patrick White
- Publisher Picador
- Pages 608
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13.8cm x 2.5cm x 21.0cm
- Weight 0.52 kg
product description
In 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 await her demise. It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who in the midst of disaster will look into the eye of the storm. An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian...