THE VIVISECTOR

A complex novel by one of Australia''s best-known writer. Hurtle Duffield is a painter who dissects the weaknesses of all those who form part of his long life. All are the victims of his art, with their weaknesses exposed, including the deformity of his sister and the illusions of his mistress. With the advent of an egocentric adolescent, however, he experiences a different, deeper, more troubled emotion. The author has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. First printed in the UK in 1970