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  The Vivisector (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Patrick White, Introduction by J M Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for The VivisectorHurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. 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 d...
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Published: 27 January 2009
  • Format: Paperback 617 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780143105671 ISBN 10: 0143105671
  • Sales rank: 103,800

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• Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. 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.