The Vivisector - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Patrick White, J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-01-27Pages:640
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143105671ISBN-10:143105671UPC:9780143105671Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, ClassicsSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCXDFTJ6M4
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...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143105671ISBN-10:143105671UPC:9780143105671Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, ClassicsSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCXDFTJ6M4
Patrick White (1912-1990) was born in England in 1912, when his parents were in Europe for two years; at six months he was taken back to Australia, where his father owned a sheep station. When he was thirteen, he went to school in England, to Cheltenham, "where it was understood, the climate would be temperate and a colonial acceptable." Neither proved true, and after four rather miserable years...
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