The Folding Star

ID: 9780099476917

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Year of publication: 2006

Number of pages: 432

ISBN: 9780099476917

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Cover: Paperback

Format: 129 x 198 mm

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Biography

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.

Annotation

An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening Standard Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst. 'A generous pinch of true wit' Sunday Times

Additional information

The Author Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher Penguin Random House
Imprint Vintage Classics
Language English
Number Of Pages 432
Format 129 x 198 mm
Cover Paperback
Year Of Publication 2006
Original Language English
Origin Of The Author England
Direction Modern Literature

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