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With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.The Stranger's Child was Sunday Times Novel of the Year in 2011.In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger's Child is Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory - and myth - can be built and broken. It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.
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The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- The Stranger's Child
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN10
- 1509852042
- ISBN13
- 9781509852048
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+, British Literature, England, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, English Literature, Victorian Era, Homosexuality, Poets, End of the 20th Century
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- The Stranger's Child
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.The Stranger's Child was Sunday Times Novel of the Year in 2011.In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger's Child is Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory - and myth - can be built and broken. It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.