The Twyborn Affair

by Patrick White

Book Overview

First published in 1979, this is the second-last novel published by the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The sexually ambiguous Eddie Twyborn is encountered in three stages of his life - as Eudoxia, the lover of an elderly Greek man; as Eddie, a jackeroo in the Australian outback; and as Eadith, the madam of a high-class London brothel. This is a paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670737895
• ISBN13: 9780670737895
• Release Date: April 1980
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.