· “The Sparsholt Affair,” his formally inventive and frequently gorgeous new novel, begins in typical Hollinghurst territory: with a beautiful young man and the young men who are enchanted with www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst begins in the ’s at Oxford University. Two young men are attracted to ‘a new man’ David Sparsholt observed and encouraged by a fellow student, Freddie Green. The character of this man and his companions is brilliantly drawn so that we know and are avid to find out how those friendships develop.4/5(). Alan Hollinghurst’s sweeping new novel evokes across three generations the intimate relationships of a group of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. We witness shifts in taste and morality through a series of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David’s son Johnny, a painter in s www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min.
Alan Hollinghurst's novel THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR covers three generations of fiends who meet at Oxford in It ends in the present day in a world of i-phones, body tattoos, same-sex marriage, children from sperm donors, etc. parents, etc. These characters go to war, marry, divorce, remarry, have children; and some of them die. The Sparsholt Affair is a beautifully written, character-driven saga: Hollinghurst (author of The Line of Beauty, winner of the Man Booker Prize) deftly orchestrates a subtle maturation in his entire cast and renders their growth in a way that particularly resonates a sense of the passage of time. Not only does Johnny grow from a teen to. The Sparsholt Affair is nicely timed for the fiftieth anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, a partial decriminalisation of gay relations. It's hardly an unambiguous celebration, but it has allowed its author to burrow back into the past. The Swimming-Pool Library, Hollinghurst's spectacular debut, also hinged on a buried sex scandal.
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst is published by Picador (£20). To order a copy for £17 go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only. Hollinghurst is especially good at evoking yearning, and, indeed, his novel will inarguably leave his readers yearning for more." - Booklist "Starred Review. A novel full of life and perception; you end the book not minding that the actual Sparsholt affair gets just the barest of outlines." - Kirkus Reviews. 1 of 2 "The Sparsholt Affair" Knopf Show More Show Less 2 of 2 Alan Hollinghurst Robert Taylor Photography Show More Show Less To read an Alan Hollinghurst novel is to encounter beauty in its many.
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