Patrick White
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nobel Prize winner Patrick White's masterpiece, The Eye of the Storm, the basis for the film starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davies, and Geoffrey Rush.
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-wait. It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who in the midst of disaster will look...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Nobel Prize—winning author of The Eye of the Storm comes a vivid, visceral tale of childhood friendship and sexual awakening from beyond the echoes of World War II.
Sydney, Australia, 1942. Two children, on the cusp of adolescence, have been spirited away from the war in Europe and given shelter in a house on Neutral Bay, taken in by the charity of an old widow who wants little to do with them. The boy, Gilbert, has escaped the Blitz....
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Series
Publisher
Storey Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages)
Language
English
Description
Growing beautiful Christmas trees is a great way to generate off-season farm income and make better use of your land. From selecting a site and planting the right species to marketing and selling trees, this Storey BASICS guide shows you how to build and maintain your own small tree nursery. Including handy tips for making handcrafted kissing balls and holiday wreaths, Growing Christmas Trees covers everything you need to know to successfully cultivate...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
14 year-old Logan is in the middle of middle school, crushing on a boy, daydreaming of another self, and waiting to see a mountain lion. An Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival and Executive Produced by Gus Van Sant, Altered Innocence proudly presents a brand new version of Cam Archer’s angst-fueled experimental classic Coming-of-Age film WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN.
Publisher
EOne Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper, and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in dying, as in living, Mrs. Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her. Based on the novel by Nobel prize winner Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm is a savage exploration of family relationships, and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy,...