Description
Title: Vivisector, The
Author: WHITE PATRICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/03/2018
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
From the Australian Nobel Laureate.
This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition
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: 9780143791010
Weight: 409g
Dimension: 195mm X 129mm
Pages: 608