The Twyborn Affair
by:
Patrick White (author)
Eudoxia is the consort of an elderly Greek who fancies himself a Byzantine emporer, Eddie is a hired hand in the Australian outback and Eadith is the madam of a London brothel. The central character in this book appears to all three, in France in 1914 and in Australia and London 25 years later.
Eudoxia is the consort of an elderly Greek who fancies himself a Byzantine emporer, Eddie is a hired hand in the Australian outback and Eadith is the madam of a London brothel. The central character in this book appears to all three, in France in 1914 and in Australia and London 25 years later.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140186062 (0140186069)
Publish date: September 7th 1993
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
bookshelves: play-dramatisation, autumn-2010, glbt, published-1979, period-piece, nobel-laureate, edwardian, wwii, families Recommended for: Drama on 3 listeners Read from November 14 to 15, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...BBC blurb - Eadie was no good as a mother: raising eyebrows...
Didn't really go for this one...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mw730/Drama_on_3_The_Twyborn_Affair/BBC blurb - Eadie was no good as a mother: raising eyebrows in Edwardian Sydney society was more exciting and anyway her child kept running away. Now in her old age she hopes to rekindle family affections. As the London Blit...
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 the time reading while high, as my traveling partner slowly regained her health. i think it was the b...
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