The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
From Oxford during the dark days of the Second world war to contemporary London, this is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.
Hollinghurst is a master storyteller.. thrilling in the rather awful way that the best Victorian novels are, so that one finds oneself galloping somewhat shamefacedly through the pages in order to discover what happens next. -- John Banville
Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving. * Evening Standard *
Few writers' prose can throw a party as easily as retire to the library as Hollinghurst's * Spectator *
Mr. Hollinghurst's great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just an inch to the left of the view they themselves would catch in the mantelpiece mirror. * The New York Observer *
Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving. * Evening Standard *
Few writers' prose can throw a party as easily as retire to the library as Hollinghurst's * Spectator *
Mr. Hollinghurst's great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just an inch to the left of the view they themselves would catch in the mantelpiece mirror. * The New York Observer *
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 | 9781509844937 |
| ISBN 10 | 1509844937 |
| Title | The Sparsholt Affair |
| Author | Alan Hollinghurst |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2017-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2019 (UK) |
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