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The Vivisector
Patrick White
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Description for The Vivisector
Paperback. Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with cruel precision. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 446.
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion.
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099324614
SKU
V9780099324614
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About Patrick White
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after ... Read more
Reviews for The Vivisector
One of the greatest magicians of fiction ... White's scope is vast and his invention endless
Observer
Patrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he pursues them with a single-minded energy and vision
Guardian
Australia's greatest novelist
Geoffrey Rush Duffield's rise from humble beginnings to ... Read more
Observer
Patrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he pursues them with a single-minded energy and vision
Guardian
Australia's greatest novelist
Geoffrey Rush Duffield's rise from humble beginnings to ... Read more