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Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle 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... Read Full Overview

Paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of a novel first published in 1970. It traces the life of a painter from his birth at the turn of the century until his death in the 60s. He dissects his experiences and relationships for the sake of his art... Read Full Overview

Hurtle Duffield is 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 precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight... Read Full Overview

Paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of a novel first published in 1970. It traces the life of a painter from his birth at the turn of the century until his death in the 60s. He dissects his experiences and relationships for the sake of his art... Read Full Overview

Paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of a novel first published in 1970. It traces the life of a painter from his birth at the turn of the century until his death in the 60s. He dissects his experiences and relationships for the sake of his art... Read Full Overview