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The Twyborn Affair
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This novel is ideal for readers who appreciate psychological depth, literary fiction, and explorations of identity and human complexity.
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.
Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973
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One of the great magicians of fiction ... White's scope is vast and his invention endless. Angus Wilson, OBSERVER
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.
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Critics praise The Twyborn Affair for its vast scope and inventive narrative. Benjamin DeMott of the New York Times highlights its enjoyment in exploring a slippery psychological realm. The Financial Times compares it favourably with some of the world's most bizarre masterpieces. Robert Nye from the Guardian commends Patrick White as a world novelist with complex and catholic themes pursued with single-minded vision.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780099458210
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 June 1995
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 299g
Pages: 432
About the Author
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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war.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 the war. He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.
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