Alan Hollinghurst Our Evenings (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Our EveningsCondition: NewISBN-10: 1447208234EAN: 9781447208235ISBN: 9781447208235Publisher: PicadorFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/03/2024Description: A ‘Book of the Year’ for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the IFeatured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime''The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too' – The Sunday TimesAlan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win’s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.Our Evenings entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w/b 07-10-24.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: Alan HollinghurstGenre: FictionItem Width: 43mmItem Weight: 734gRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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