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The Vivisector

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099324614

  • Length: 624  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 426g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Vivisector

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099324614

  • Length: 624  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 426g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • "One of the greatest magicians of fiction ... White's scope is vast and his invention endless"

    Observer

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About the Author

Patrick White

Patrick White was born in England in 1912. His Australian parents took him home when he was six months old but educated him in England, at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where his first novel, Happy Valley, was published to some acclaim in 1939. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War he returned to Australia with his partner, Manoly Lascaris. The novels, short stories and plays that followed The Tree of Man in 1956 made White a considerable figure in world literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Hanging Garden was begun and put aside in 1981 when White was lured away to write once again for the theatre. The unfinished novel was found among his papers after his death in September 1990.

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