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The Vivisector
  • Published: 19 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780143791010
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $24.99

The Vivisector

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19 Mar 2018
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1 May 2012
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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.
  • Published: 19 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780143791010
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for The Vivisector

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

Angus Wilson, 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.

Robert Nye, Guardian