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The Stranger's Child

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b>With an introduction by Anthony Quinn./b>b>The Stranger's Child was Sunday Times Novel of the Year in 2011./b>br>b>/b>br>In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger's Child is Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory - and myth - can be built and broken. It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.

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Authors Alan Hollinghurst, Hollinghurst Alan
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback
Released 31.10.2017
 
EAN 9781509852048
ISBN 978-1-5098-5204-8
No. of pages 592
Dimensions 130 mm x 197 mm x 35 mm
Series Picador Classic
Picador Classic
Picador Collection
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

England, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Family life fiction, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)

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