The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst

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The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening Standard

Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.

'A generous pinch of true wit' Sunday Times

The Folding Star Reviews

'As is typical of the best classics, he has fashioned a universal tale of sexual obsession, love and death out of a particular life' * Marie Claire *
'Even in its sexiest moments, it never loses its intellectual poise. Dry witticisms intersperse sweaty couplings...The Folding Star is a novel of considerable breadth.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 Hollinghurst's...[He ] is on as fine a form in this novel as his first' -- Tom Shone * Spectator *
'Grand 19th-century fin-de-siecle lusciousness, a seamy 20th-century carnality and a generous pinch of true wit' * Sunday Times *

About Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001080385

ISBN 13

9780099476917

ISBN 10

0099476916

Title

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

Author

Alan Hollinghurst

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

19950406

Number of pages

432

Prizes

Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1994 Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 1994 Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1994

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Note

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