Description: From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality, love and violenceDid I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I'd lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.Dave Win, the son of a British dressmaker and a Burmese man he's never met, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates, above all that of Giles Hadlow, whose worldly parents sponsored the scholarship and who find in Dave someone they can more easily nurture than their own brutish son.Our Evenings follows Dave from the 1960s on--through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security.Moving in and out of Dave's orbit are the Hadlows. Estranged from his parents, who remain close to Dave, Giles directs his privilege into a career as a powerful right-wing politician, whose reactionary vision for England pokes perilous holes in Dave's stability. As the story accelerates toward the present day, the two men's lives and values will finally collide in a cruel shock of violence.From "one of our most gifted writers" (The Boston Globe), Our Evenings sweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.
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Type: Novel
Book Title: Our Evenings : a Novel
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Topic: Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Historical
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 25.5 Oz
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover