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Patrick White – The Twyborn Affair – First Edition 1979
£35.00
A first edition, first printing of The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1979. A fine copy free from inscriptions, text block bright and crisp with light brown top stain. In a near fine wrapper with pushing to knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine and closed tears to upper and lower edges of rear panel. Wrapper drawing by Luciana Arrighi, design by Mon Mohan.
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White is a bold, experimental novel exploring identity, sexuality and transformation. It follows Eddie/Eudoxia/Eadith Twyborn across three phases of life: as a young man in rural Australia, a glamorous woman in Europe, and later a brothel madam back in Sydney. Each reinvention grapples with love, desire and society’s constraints. White’s richly textured prose examines duality, fluid gender and the search for authenticity, making the novel a provocative meditation on human complexity and reinvention.
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A first edition, first printing of The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1979. A fine copy free from inscriptions, text block bright and crisp with light brown top stain. In a near fine wrapper with pushing to knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine and closed tears to upper and lower edges of rear panel. Wrapper drawing by Luciana Arrighi, design by Mon Mohan.
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White is a bold, experimental novel exploring identity, sexuality and transformation. It follows Eddie/Eudoxia/Eadith Twyborn across three phases of life: as a young man in rural Australia, a glamorous woman in Europe, and later a brothel madam back in Sydney. Each reinvention grapples with love, desire and society’s constraints. White’s richly textured prose examines duality, fluid gender and the search for authenticity, making the novel a provocative meditation on human complexity and reinvention.
