Sparsholt Affair
«Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving.»
Evening Standard
The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of the Second World War to contemporary London, this is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Picador
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 448
- ISBN
- 9781447208228
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2019 UK.
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«Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving.»
Evening Standard
«But for narrative ambition and sheer comic joy, by far the best thing I’ve read this year is Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair. It’s a novel with brains and heart and balls — the kind you find yourself wanting to read at two speeds at once: very quickly, so that you can get on to the next page, and very slowly, so that you can linger over each beautifully crafted sentence. He’s a writer who makes every word sing.»
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Spectator
«The Sparsholt Affair begins with a group of friends in wartime Oxford who become obsessed with the beautiful, heartily unintellectual and apparently heterosexual David Sparsholt. Then we leap in time, to hear from Sparsholt’s son, Johnny. In the gaps between sections, something happened. The “affair” of the novel’s title is “some sort of scandal” in the 1960s involving Sparsholt, a Tory MP and rent boys. Alan Hollinghurst explores the effects of a scandal over time and generations.»
The Times, Saturday Review, The best new paperbacks to read on holiday this summer
«Mr. Hollinghurst's great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just an inch to the left of the view they themselves would catch in the mantelpiece mirror.»
The New York Observer
«Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair is startling, radical, embedded in tradition but entirely new in final effect – the novel that other novelists were all talking about this year.»
Philip Hensher, Guardian
«Hollinghurst is a master storyteller ... thrilling in the rather awful way that the best Victorian novels are, so that one finds oneself galloping somewhat shamefacedly through the pages in order to discover what happens next.»
John Banville