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The Twyborn Affair
Patrick White
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Description for The Twyborn Affair
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Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099458210
SKU
V9780099458210
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About Patrick White
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after ... Read more
Reviews for The Twyborn Affair
[An] exploration of an extremely slippery characterological realm offers many substantial pleasures
Benjamin DeMott
New York Times
It challenges comparison with some of the world's most bizarre masterpieces
Financial Times
Patrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he persues them with a single-minded energy and ... Read more
Benjamin DeMott
New York Times
It challenges comparison with some of the world's most bizarre masterpieces
Financial Times
Patrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he persues them with a single-minded energy and ... Read more