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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Alan Hollinghurst'... We found 3 matches.
Alan Hollinghurst
The Folding Star Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, this tale of sexual obsession, love and death is by the author of The Swimming Pool Library. Edward Manners, thirty-three and disaffected, escapes to Belgium, falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and enters the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter, Edgard Orst.
1994 James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes
Vintage 1998 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-09-949051-X
 Author photo: © Robert Taylor
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens as the Thatcher boom-years unfold.
2004 Man Booker Prize (Winner)
2004 Whitbread Book Prize (Shortlisted)
Picador 2004 hbk £15.99 ISBN 0-330-48320-X
Author photo: © Robert Taylor
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth48
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1184683,00.html http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1189089,00.html http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1377860,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3739744.stm#issue 
Alan Hollinghurst
The Spell A comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties living with his younger lover Justin (a would-be actor) in Dorset; Robin's twenty-two-year-old son Danny, who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and shy Alex.
Vintage 1999 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-09-927694-1
Author photo: © Robert Taylor
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