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The Folding Star
Alan Hollinghurst
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Description for The Folding Star
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 308. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
'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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099476917
SKU
KKD0007687
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alan Hollinghurst
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Folding Star
'As is typical of the best classics, he has fashioned a universal tale of sexual obsession, love and death out of a particular life'
Marie Claire
'Even in its sexiest moments, it never loses its intellectual poise. Dry witticisms intersperse sweaty couplings...The Folding Star is a novel of considerable breadth.What gives it its depth is the candour, wit, ... Read more
Marie Claire
'Even in its sexiest moments, it never loses its intellectual poise. Dry witticisms intersperse sweaty couplings...The Folding Star is a novel of considerable breadth.What gives it its depth is the candour, wit, ... Read more