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Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his pupils. Despite the fact that this book is about a controversial topic, homosexuality, i believe that it should be judged by its quality, which is outstanding. Sex and sensibility in the novels of alan hollinghurst. Ive read all three of hollinghursts novels and must be the only one who thinks the folding star was his best, this the next best, and his first, swimming pool library, the least enjoyable. Alan hollinghursts hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of edward man. The sparsholt affair is the longawaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of british fiction and previous winner of the man booker prize. The folding star ebook by alan hollinghurst rakuten kobo. In 1989, hollinghurst won the somerset maugham award for the swimming pool library. Alan hollinghurst was born in stroud in gloucestershire, england in 1954 and was educated at magdalen college, oxford.
Hollinghurst s the swimming pool library erotic novel of a language tutors obsession with his teenage pupil was a booker prize finalist. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, the swimmingpool library, and was selected as one of the best of young british novelists 1993. The novel is the story of a gay english man, edward manners, who, disaffected with life, moves to a town in flanders where he teaches two students english. Ive read all three of hollinghursts novels and must be the only one who thinks the folding star was his best. He was on the staff of the times literary supplement from 1982 to 1995. The folding star is also arguably the hollinghurst novel that most references the visual arts. Its is reminiscent of villette at first, but the world evoked is far more complex, as are the emotional lives of its characters. What gives it its depth is the candour, wit, sensuous immediacy and melancholy intelligence applied to it peter kemp times literary supplement few writers prose can throw a party as easily as retire to the library as hollinghursts. In 2004, he won the man booker prize for the line of. Alan hollinghurst is among britains most highlyrated literary novelists, whose bestknown book the line of beauty 2004, winner of that years man booker prize, is a tourdeforce envisioning of the thatcher years as an era of doomed romance. Alan hollinghurst s hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of edward manners, a disaffected 33yearold who leaves england to earn his living as a language tutor in a flemish city. The folding star is a sombre, dreamlike work about a private tutors infatuation with his 17yearold charge. Alan hollinghursts masterly new novel evokes the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by art, literature and love across three generations. The swimmingpool library by alan hollinghurst books on.
Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his. The folding star is carefully wrought, and beautifully written. Two young men are attracted to a new man david sparsholt observed and encouraged by a fellow student, freddie green. Edward manners thirty three and disaffected escapes to a flemish city in search of a new life. This acclaimed book by alan hollinghurst is available at in several formats for your ereader. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app. The prose is brilliant, hypnotic and so crisply and beautifullyconstructed. The story is told by edward manners, an englishman who arrives in belgium to work as a language tutor. One, marcel, is plodding and plain while the other, luc, is gifted and, to the protagonist, extremely beautiful. At the beginning, his narrator, the stuffily named edward manners.
Guardian ive just started the sparsholt affair by alan hollinghurst, my favourite living novelist. Hollinghurst is a superior novelist of manners, and the brilliance of the strangers child is in how it reveals the ways bad blood and secrets muck with history. The folding star was, in my opinion, one of the best books i have ever read. The sparsholt affair by alan hollinghurst pan macmillan. It is a pleasure to read a book that one doesnt constantly feel compelled to. The characters are flawed, and yet engaging, and he genuinely can write sex scenes that dont make your toes squirm. The folding star by alan hollinghurst penguin books. The folding star is lit by insight and humour evening standard.
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