The vivisector
"Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White. 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 s…
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- Full title :The vivisector / Patrick White ; introduction by J.M. Coetzee.
Summary
"Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White. 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."--
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 617 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781440699962, 1440699968, 9781436254625, 1436254620, 9781440699993, 1440699992
- oclc:ocn680285975
- LC Classification:PR9619.3.W5
- Dewey Decimal:823/.912
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