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The Twyborn Affair

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781446434895

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • RRP: £8.34

The Twyborn Affair

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781446434895

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • RRP: £8.34

Reviews

  • "[An] exploration of an extremely slippery characterological realm offers many substantial pleasures"

    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 vision"

    Guardian

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About the Author

Patrick White

Patrick White was born in England in 1912. His Australian parents took him home when he was six months old but educated him in England, at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where his first novel, Happy Valley, was published to some acclaim in 1939. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War he returned to Australia with his partner, Manoly Lascaris. The novels, short stories and plays that followed The Tree of Man in 1956 made White a considerable figure in world literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Hanging Garden was begun and put aside in 1981 when White was lured away to write once again for the theatre. The unfinished novel was found among his papers after his death in September 1990.

Patrick White

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