The Folding Star The Folding Star

The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst
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Publisher Description

'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening Standard

Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.

‘A generous pinch of true wit’ Sunday Times

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Hollinghurst's (The Swimming Pool Library) erotic novel of a language tutor's obsession with his teenage pupil was a Booker Prize finalist.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
30 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
1.2
MB

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