‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst

A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change

The Guardian
Alan Hollinghurst: ‘I wrote letters to my schoolfriends in dwarfish runes’

The author on the brilliance of Burroughs, Penelope Fitzgerald’s concise mastery, and a teenage obsession with Middle-earth

The Guardian
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst review – his finest novel yet

Gay life in England across the decades, from the 1960s to the pandemic, is captured with glowing intensity through an actor’s memories

The Guardian

The prose is rich and refined, the (many) characters are deep and interesting, and though at times the English upper class/Home counties/literary world setting feels stale, it is pleasure to read.

The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst
8/10

#englishliterature #alanhollinghurst
#novel

What seems so expected for one generation is so different in the light of another—and there is no taking wins for granted. #TheSparsholtAffair #AlanHollinghurst #BookChat #bookstodon
Hollinghurst guides the reader through generations of friends and family, via a narrative that is shared by so many more. #TheSparsholtAffair #AlanHollinghurst #BookChat #bookstodon

Book no. 5: The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst.

Hollinghurst's writing is beautiful. This story spans six decades, revolving around events that are only alluded to, including the 'affair' in the title, but which have a profound effect on several of the characters. A poignant view of the changing attitudes towards homosexuality over the decades.
Recommended.

#2023reads
#BeatTheBacklog
#Bookstodon
#Books
#Reading
#AlanHollinghurst
@bookstodon

Und noch ein Mitbringsel aus dem #LCB von „Kleine Verlage am großen Wannsee“. Whoopwhoop! 😉 Dass ich Hollinghurst gelesen habe, ist inzwischen schon etwas her. Ich bin gespannt, wie mir dieser Roman von 1994 so gefallen wird. 🤓

Mehr: https://bit.ly/3pgRy1r

#lesesommer #roman #alanhollinghurst #albino #england #belgien #obsession #begierde #lesen #leselust #leseratte #indiebook #bücher #literatur

Alan Hollinghurst: Der Hirtenstern