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Rich with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism— The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
11 de out. de 2011 · The Stranger’s Child is Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece, the book that cements his position as one of the finest novelists of our time. In its scope, intelligence and elegance. Sixteen-year-old Daphne Sawle is reading Tennyson in a hammock in the garden of Two Acres, the family home in suburban London.
The Stranger’s Child is an important contribution to the redefinition of Englishness from the non-heterosexual perspective. Alan Hollinghurst has always been interested in writing about an England in the times before gay culture became possible.4 The Stranger’s Child is the opus magnum of his research.
11 de out. de 2011 · Hollinghurst is a superior novelist of manners, and the brilliance of The Stranger’s Child is in how it reveals the ways bad blood and secrets muck with history." — Minneapolis Star Tribune "Beautifully written, ambitious in its scope and structure, confident in its execution, The Stranger’s Child is a masterclass in the art of the novel."
Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried - until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts - haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism - The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire ...
15 de out. de 2013 · The stranger's child by Alan Hollinghurst. Publication date 2011 Topics Family secrets, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Families, History ...
22 de nov. de 2013 · Similar to Brideshead, The Stranger’s Child is at its strongest when describing the summer that George Sawle brought poet Cecil Valance to his family estate. George’s younger sister Daphne has a crush on Cecil, and an ambiguous poem he writes in her autograph book gives cause for a debate that spans generations.
