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THE TWYBORN AFFAIR Patrick White was born in England in 1912. He was taken to Australia (where his father owned a sheep farm) when he was six months old, but 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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war; he returned after the war to Australia. 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 has turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as 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. Technically brilliant, he is one modern novelist to whom the oft-abused epithet ‘visionary’ can safely be applied. He died in September 1990. BY PATRICK WHITE Fiction Happy Valley The Living And The Dead The Aunt’s Story The Tree Of Man Voss Riders In The Chariot The Burnt Ones The Solid Mandala The Vivisector The Eye Of The Storm The Cockatoos A Fringe Of Leaves The Twyborn Affair Three Uneasy Pieces Memoirs Of Many In One (Editor) Autobiography Flaws In The Glass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of Random House Australia. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. The Twyborn Affair ePub ISBN 9781742743769 Kindle ISBN 978174274776 Published by Vintage 1995 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 Copyright © Patrick White 1979 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1979 Vintage Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA Random House Australia (Pty) Limited Level 3, 100 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, NSW 2060 Random House New Zealand Limited 18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland 10, New Zealand Random House (Pty) Limited Endulini, 5A Jubilee Road Parktown 2193, South Africa The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 www.randomhouse.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 0 09945 821 0 CONTENTS Cover About the Author Also by Patrick White Title Page Copyright Imprint Page Dedication Praise Part I Part II Part III TO JIM SHARMAN What else should our lives be but a series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become. David Malouf My suspicion is that in Heaven the Blessed are of the opinion that the advantages of that locale have been overrated by theologians who were never actually there. Perhaps even in Hell the damned are not always satisfied. Jorge Luis Borges Sometimes you’ll see someone with nothing on but a bandaid. Diane Arbus Part I
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