Alan Hollinghurst

The Folding Star

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fiction 1994, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1994

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Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, this tale of sexual obsession, love and death is by the author of "The Swimming Pool Library". Edward Manners, 33 and disaffected, escapes to Belgium, falls in love with 17-year-old Luc, and enters the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter, Edgard Orst.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: GB; VINTAGE, LONDON
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 587155
• 1995.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780099476917
• ISBN-10: 0099476916
• Artikelnr.: 13166591

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

'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