The Vivisector Recent Tom pursues a quest

Tom pursues a quest

Otto learns - often riotously - that his city and his family are very special indeed

Did the hired help - each a paroled murderer from the nearby prison - have a deadly hand in this Christmas conundrum

gagged and dead in front of his television

The Vivisector Recent Tom pursues a questHurtle 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 indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he