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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

  • "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

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About the Author

Patrick White

Patrick White has written novels, short stories and plays, including Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Vivisector, The Twyborn Affair and, most recently, Three Uneasy Pieces. In 1973 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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