The Folding Star The Folding Star

The Folding Star

A Novel

Alan Hollinghurst
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Publisher Description

The 1995 Booker Prize finalist.



Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected 33-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city. Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his pupils, but can only console himself with other, illicit affairs. With this novel, Hollinghurst exposes us fearlessly to the consequences of unfulfillable, annihilating desire.

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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
2008
December 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury USA
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
1.9
MB

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