Alan Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic.
Alan Hollinghurst’s 1995 novel is an enigmatic tale of obsession, mystery, lust and loss.
Edward Manners is 32 years old, gay, and disillusioned with his life in England. He arrives in an ancient Flemish city to work as a language tutor, also hoping to get some writing done. There, he becomes obsessed with one of his students, a 17-year-old boy named Luc Altidore. Their relationship quickly becomes a highly erotic one, but then Luc abruptly disappears.
Alan Hollinghurst
About the Author
Born in Stroud, England, Alan Hollinghurst is a novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.Other nominated books by Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst portrays a ruthless decade through Nick, an increasingly-less-innocent abroad, as he gets caught up in the boom years of the 80s.