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The Vivisector

The Vivisector

by PatrickWhite (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

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    Paperback 1994

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 624
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 21 Jul 1994
ISBN 10: 009932461X
ISBN 13: 9780099324614
Book Overview: A tour de force of sexual and psychological menace

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war.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 the war. He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.