{"product_id":"the-vivisector-paperback-by-patrick-white","title":"The Vivisector Paperback by Patrick White","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePenguin Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2009-01-27)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e640\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780143105671\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e487.62\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e19.68 x 12.98 x 3.51\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoin J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHurtle 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick White\u003c\/b\u003e (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 there he went to King’s College,  Cambridge, where he specialized in languages. After leaving the  university he settled in London, determined to become a writer. His  first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939 and his second, \u003ci\u003eThe  Living and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1941. During the war he was an RAF Intelligence  Officer in the Middle East and Greece. After the war he returned to  Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Aunt’s Story\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), \u003ci\u003eThe Tree  of Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1956), \u003ci\u003eVoss\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), \u003ci\u003eRiders in the Chariot \u003c\/i\u003e(1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Solid  Mandala\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), \u003ci\u003eThe Eye of the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eA Fringe of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e (1976),  and \u003ci\u003eThe Twyborn Affair \u003c\/i\u003e(1979). He also published two collections of  short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Burnt Ones\u003c\/i\u003e (1964) and \u003ci\u003eThe Cockatoos\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), which  incorporates several short novels, a collection of novellas, \u003ci\u003eThree  Uneasy Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and his autobiography, Flaws in the Glass (1981).  He also edited \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Many in One \u003c\/i\u003e(1986). In 1973 he was awarded the  Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpon his death, \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003ewrote, “Patrick White did more than any  other writer to put Australian literature on the international map.… His  tormented oeuvre is that of a great and essentially modern writer.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. M. Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940. He studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include \u003ci\u003eDusklands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Times of Michael K.\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003ci\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for\u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. 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