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The Twyborn Affair

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Random House, Jan 25, 2011 - Fiction - 432 pages
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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Review: The Twyborn Affair

User Review  - mark monday - Goodreads

i picked this up in a hostel donation shelf in amsterdam; it was missing both the back and front covers and the author was unknown to me. i knew nothing about it except that it was something to pass ... Read full review

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User Review  - Tim - Goodreads

This book is worth reading simply because the central character is a person worth knowing. Eddie Twyborn was assigned “male” at birth but lived much of life as a woman. To the extent we come to know ... Read full review

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About the author (2011)

Patrick White is a British Columbia journalist whose interest in the north dates back to his early childhood when the old Arctic traveler Bill White (no relation) used to visit Patrick's family and recount his riveting tales of chasing Arctic murderers across the frozen tundra. Later, while taking a course in Arctic history at the University of Victoria, Patrick discovered an aural archive of Bill's Arctic experiences. He was struck again by the originality, authenticity and historical value of Bill's account and resolved to get it down on paper. "Mountie in Mukluks" is his first book.

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