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Albion's Story by Kate Grenville (Paperback)

Albion Gidley Singer: well schooled in upper-class Sydney, inheritor of his father's lucrative stationery goods business. An awkward lad, good at the social games expected of him, he hides behind an assemblage of facts that he trots out, at length, to anyone who will listen. Traumatized by the repugnancies of the world - hunger, poverty, the underworld of women - Albion barely manages to stomach the rituals that accompany initiation into manhood. And so, with scientific precision, he searches for a proper mate. He does t agonize over his choice, for he kws that in essence women are all the same, nearly as interchangeable as the bricks in a wall. Childbirth - that mysterious, unpleasant business - soon follows. His firstborn is Lilian, who proves to be the cruelest of jokes: Nature had dealt Lilian a nasty blow in making her a female, but I was t going to be cheated of her. She was a chip off the old block in every respect but one, and I was going to make sure that one flaw did t spoil the rest of her. As Lilian matures into a huge, inquiring, iron-willed young woman, a piglet in a lace nightdress, her gender calls into question Albion's own sense of self, and the ongoing power struggle between father and daughter exacts a stiff toll on both of them.

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