The VivisectorFrom the Australian Nobel Laureate. This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition. The Vivisector follows Hurtle Duffield, a painter incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precisionhis sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, and the passionate illusions