The Folding Star: A Novel - Softcover

Hollinghurst, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596910038 ISBN 13: 9781596910034

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2005

Synopsis

The 1995 Booker Prize finalist finally back in print.
 
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 can only console himself with other, illicit affairs. With this novel, Hollinghurst exposes us fearlessly to the consequences of unfulfillable, annihilating desire.

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Rare book

Review:

"'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-siècle lusciousness, a seamy 20th-century carnality and a generous pinch of true wit'" (Sunday Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1596910038
• ISBN 13: 9781596910034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 437