![]() ![]() Later, with the help of a mysterious benefactor, he becomes a comfortably rich artist, but he never seems to take any consolation in his success. Thanks to the nouveau-rich Courtneys he enjoys an oh-so comfortable lifestyle and gets to travel abroad.īut there is a part of Hurtle that cannot engage with people on any emotional level - perhaps because he sees himself as a loner that doesn’t fit in - and as a young adult cuts himself off from his step-family, finding comfort in the life of a struggling artist. His poverty-stricken parents - a laundry woman and a bottle collector - are convinced his intelligence mark him out as a genius and sell him to a wealthy family in the hope he will get the education he deserves. Fiction – paperback Penguin 617 pages 1989.įirst published in 1970, The Vivisector by Patrick White details the life of Hurtle Duffield, an Australian artist, from a four-year-old up until his death as an elderly man living as a recluse in Sydney with Rhoda, his hunch-backed step-sister.Ī clever, all-knowing kind of boy, Hurtle shows early signs of creativity, drawing on walls and being attracted to old paintings and leather-bound books. ![]()
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