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The Vivisector

The Vivisector

by Patrick White
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/05/2012

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From Australian first Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
White's best known novel, now in a commemorative limited edition

Now in an exquisite commemorative design with a cover painted by the Oscar Award-winning designer Luciana Arrighi
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, 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 in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience.
ISBN:
9781742755755
9781742755755
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-05-2012
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
608
Dimensions (mm):
239x165x45mm
Weight:
1.26kg
Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century.

From 1935 to his death, he published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.

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