Alan Hollinghurst: 12 books

In het eerste jaar van de Tweede Wereldoorlog vertelt Freddie Green het verhaal van zijn studentenleven in Oxford. Er is een nieuwe student aangekomen, David Sparsholt, voor wie Freddie en zijn vriend Evert Dax een meer dan gewone belangstelling hebben. Zijn fysieke aantrekkelijkheid is even sterk...

Kind van een vreemde is zonder twijfel een van de beste romans die dit jaar zullen worden gepubliceerd. the guardian In de late zomer van 1913 logeert de jonge, aristocratische dichter Cecil Valance op het familielandgoed van zijn Cambridge-vriend George Sawle. Het weekend dat hij daar doorbrengt...

The 1995 Booker Prize finalist. Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected 33-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city. Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his pupils, but...

The critical event in Berenice, the death of Titus's father, the Emperor Vespasian, happens a week before the play opens. Thereafter Titus knows that his separation from Berenice is inevitable. The breaking off of a great love affair involves too the hopes of Antiochus, himself long in love with Berenice....

Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty isa sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In...

From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young...

The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived...

In 1940, the handsome, athletic, and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. Spanning three generations, The Sparsholt...

Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old...

Nick Guest, fils d’un petit antiquaire de province et brillant boursier d’Oxford, s’installe à Londres pour mener à bien sa thèse de littérature. Il loue une chambre dans l’hôtel particulier des parents de son ami Toby Fedden, et entre dans l’intimité de la famille : Gerald, le père,...

Placé sous le double signe de la réforme et de la révolution, le numéro d’octobre-novembre entend analyser de près ces deux notions capitales de l’histoire politique française. À la différence de l’Allemagne, la France serait, dit-on, inapte à l’esprit de compromis. Qu’en est-il...

Passano i decenni, e di David Sparsholt si continua a parlare. Fin dall’autunno del 1940, quando in una Oxford rabbuiata dalla guerra, tra cortili oscuri e veglie notturne per individuare aerei nemici, la sua bellezza abbagliante fulmina il circolo di giovani intellettuali raccolti intorno all’insicuro...