The vivisector

Informationen zum Autor Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war. He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990. Klappentext Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion. Zusammenfassung Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick White
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.1994
• EAN: 9780099324614
• ISBN: 978-0-09-932461-4
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Australische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Paintings and painting, FICTION / World Literature / Australia, australia; voss; the eye; contemporary fiction