Description
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, offers a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. Dave Win is thirteen when he first stays with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. The weekend opens up exciting new possibilities while exposing him to the envy and violence of their son, Giles. Over the next half-century, their lives diverge dramatically: Dave becomes a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, while Giles develops into an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician. Set among schooldays and university, first love affairs in London, life on the road with an experimental theatre company and a late-life affair, the novel explores race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence. It is an intimate and moving account of Dave Win's life, as a new relationship transforms his sixties with happiness and a perilous sense of security.
Information
Author: Hollinghurst Alan
Language: English
Publication date: August 28, 2025
Genres: Books, Foreign language books, English literature, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 486
ISBN/EAN: 9781447208242