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The Stranger's Child (Paperback, Open market ed)
Alan HollinghurstLinking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming century, and subjected to the scrutiny of critics and biographers with their own agendas and anxieties. In a sequence of widely separated episodes we follow the two families through startling changes in fortune and circumstance.
At the centre of this often richly comic history of sexual mores and literary reputation runs the story of Daphne, from innocent girlhood to wary old age. Around her Hollinghurst draws an absorbing picture of an England constantly in flux.
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Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming century, and subjected to the scrutiny of critics and biographers with their own agendas and anxieties. In a sequence of widely separated episodes we follow the two families through startling changes in fortune and circumstance.
At the centre of this often richly comic history of sexual mores and literary reputation runs the story of Daphne, from innocent girlhood to wary old age. Around her Hollinghurst draws an absorbing picture of an England constantly in flux.
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Reviewed by Amanda P. -
When a book begins with the agony of description, I shudder. When it continues with a girl telling me everything for a chapter, it's unbearable. When it's filled with boring characters who happen to live in beautiful houses and write poetry, I can't pretend it doesn't matter. You just know there will be a crisis of sexuality / homosexuality, a problem with alcohol and the ironic observation of the privileged upper class.. I wasn't disappointed. In late 1913 the young poet, Cecil Valance stays at the aristocratic home of his Cambridge friend, George Sawle. Cecil writes Georges 16-year-old sister, Daphne, a poem which becomes important to an England that is about to go to war and change forever. Etc. Etc. It's a horrible book. If I could give it 0/5 I would. Who chooses these terribly pretentious attempts at literary genius? It must be the 2000 people who actually read them. The rest of the reading planet have other things to do. Like read good books Amanda Patterson www.writerswrite.co.za
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Imprint | Picador |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | July 2011 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
First published | July 2011 |
Authors | Alan Hollinghurst |
Dimensions | 235 x 152 x 41mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 563 |
Edition | Open market ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-330-51396-8 |
Barcode | 9780330513968 |
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LSN | 0-330-51396-6 |
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