Alan Hollinghurst's new novel explores the legacy of David Sparsholt across three generations, on friends and family alike; we experience through its characters changes in taste, morality, and private life in a sequence of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric social gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's son Johnny, a painter in s London; the push . · The “affair” of this novel’s title is an incident that looms over the narrative while remaining hazy in its details. In the mids, Johnny’s father, by then a captain of industry, is Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Alan Hollinghurst’s sweeping new novel evokes across three generations the intimate relationships of a group of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. We witness shifts in taste and morality through a series of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David’s son Johnny, a painter in s bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 1 min.
Alan Hollinghurst's new novel, The Sparsholt Affair, is an impressive portrait of the titular character, David Sparsholt, through the eyes of various people surrounding him. Beautifully and sensually written, it follows three generations, from Sparsholt's contemporaries at Oxford to his son to his granddaughter. What happens to these two men in this year will affect many lives and will set in motion the mystery at the heart of The Sparsholt Affair. Alan Hollinghurst's masterly novel takes us through several generations and across key periods of uncertainty and change in British society. The Sparsholt Affair (Hardcover) Published March 13th by Knopf Canada. Canadian First Edition, Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Alan Hollinghurst. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.
The Sparsholt Affair is Alan Hollinghurst's sixth novel, and like his previous two -- the Man Booker Prize–winning The Line of Beauty and, subsequently, The Stranger's Child-- the story travels through a series of eras, capturing in each the nature of gay life in England. That, at least, would be one way to describe these works: another would be to say that, like them, the present novel follows the repercussions and echoes of earlier deeds or events over time. Synopsis. In October , the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst is published by Picador (£20). To order a copy for £17 go to bltadwin.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only.
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