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Alan Hollinghurst

Biography

Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY; THE FOLDING STAR; THE SPELL; THE LINE OF BEAUTY, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; THE STRANGER'S CHILD; THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR; and OUR EVENINGS. He has also received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in London.

Alan Hollinghurst

Books by Alan Hollinghurst

Our Evenings
by Alan Hollinghurst - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is 13 years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates. OUR EVENINGS follows Dave from the 1960s on --- through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security.

The Sparsholt Affair
by Alan Hollinghurst - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1940, the handsome, athletic and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others --- especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. Spanning three generations, THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR plumbs the ways that the friendship between these two men will influence their lives --- and the lives of others’ --- for decades to come.