The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

1995
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-947691-7 (ISBN)

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'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

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.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-947691-6 / 0099476916
ISBN-13	978-0-09-947691-7 / 9780099476917
Zustand	Neuware