Vivisector

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780143791010
Published: March 2018

Number of pages: 608
Width: 129 mm
Height: 195 mm
Depth: 42 mm

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia