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The Vivisector

Patrick White

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#3573 of 8,085 books · #1807 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1970).

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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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13
9780140185270
Genre
Fiction
Topics
The creative process and artistic obsessionCruelty and exploitation in relationshipsPsychological and sexual menace

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