The Sparsholt Affair
'A highlight of Hollinghurst's career, and one of the best books of the year' IndependentIn 1940, David Sparsholt goes up to Oxford University. Charismatic and good-looking, he seems to have little awareness of the effect he has on others, not least on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax. As the Blitz rages fifty miles away in London, the university exists in a strange limbo, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Aware that they will soon be called up, David and Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives - and those of their friends - for decades to come . . .The Sparsholt Affair tells the story of a circle of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-0822-8
- EAN: 9781447208228
- Produktnummer: 18133625
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.3 cm 384 g
- Gewicht: 384
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Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.
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