The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

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Summary

In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact.

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The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780330513968
ISBN 10 0330513966
Title The Stranger's Child
Author Alan Hollinghurst
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2011-07-01
Number of pages 576
Prizes Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2012 (UK), Long-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 (Ireland), Long-listed for Man Booker Prize 2011 (UK)
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