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 · The folding star by Alan Hollinghurst. 0 Ratings 1 Want to read; 0 Currently reading; 0 Have read; This edition was published in by Vintage in London. Written in English — pages From bltadwin.ru: Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected year-old who leaves England.  · THE TELLING details of Alan Hollinghurst's second novel come in threes. At the beginning, his narrator, the stuffily named Edward Manners, arrives . Alan Hollinghurst lives on a street of semidetached red-brick houses at the edge of Hampstead Heath, the eight-hundred-acre park in northern London. But later ­novels, including The Folding Star () and this year’s The Stranger’s Child, are in part pastoral reveries that gesture back to his semi­rural English childhood.

The folding star by Alan Hollinghurst. 0 Ratings 1 Want to read; 0 Currently reading; 0 Have read; This edition was published in by Vintage in London. Written in English — pages From bltadwin.ru: Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected year-old who leaves England. I read Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize winner, The Line of Beauty, because I wanted to see what people thought was better than David Mitchell's Cloud bltadwin.ru while I still think Mitchell is better, I did enjoy The Line of bltadwin.ru seeing The Folding Star in a second-hand bookshop for cheap was an easy decision to make.. Edward Manners is a thirty-something tutor who goes to Belgium to. The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru

Edward's cultural and sexual history is detailed further when he returns to England for the funeral of his one great love; as teenagers, they made love beneath Milton's ``folding star.''. All this background is presented well, but by the time it's established, Hollinghurst's story has withered on the vine. The Folding Star PDF book by Alan Hollinghurst Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. Published in the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, lgbt books. The Folding Star shows off all of Alan Hollinghurst's many qualities as novelist. The prose is brilliant, hypnotic and so crisply and beautifully-constructed. The characters are flawed, and yet engaging, and he genuinely can write sex scenes that don't make your toes squirm. I was surprised though to see one review refer to this as a sombre book.