That character's puppy-killing son flees to Albany after rigging a horse race so his sister Thelma's landlord Mr. Bourke loses.
One of this author's characters saves a horse-riding woman of legendary beauty from a fire in Glastonbury that burns off her hair shortly before he enlists. That character's puppy-killing son flees to Albany after rigging a horse race so his sister Thelma's landlord Mr. Bourke loses. In another novel by this author, the protagonist meets a grocer who masturbates in public shortly after the mysterious death in a shack of his prostitute lover Nance. In that novel by him, the protagonist moves in with the crazy (*) cat lady he depicts in Pythoness at Tripod, who happens to be his humpbacked adopted sister Rhoda Courtney. The end of that novel by him focuses on the relationship between the teenage pianist Kathy Volkov and the painter Hurtle Duffield. Laura Trevelyan accompanies the title German explorer in another novel by him. For 10 points, name this author of The Tree of Man, The Vivisector, and Voss, an Australian Nobelist.
One of this author's characters saves a horse-riding woman of legendary beauty from a fire in Glastonbury that burns off her hair shortly before he enlists.
Patrick Victor Martindale White