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The novel is the story of a gay English man, Edward Manners, who, disaffected with life, moves to a town in Flanders where he teaches two students English. One, Marcel, is plodding and plain while the other, Luc, is gifted and, to the protagonist, extremely beautiful.
- Alan Hollinghurst
- 1994
1 de jan. de 1994 · Alan Hollinghurst. Edward Manners - thirty-three, disaffected, in search of a new life - has come to an ancient Flemish city to teach English. Almost at once he falls in love with one of his pupils, the seventeen-year-old Luc Altidore, recently expelled from school for some mysterious offense.
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1 de jan. de 1994 · Written by Alan Hollinghurst. Alan Hollinghurst’s 1995 novel is an enigmatic tale of obsession, mystery, lust and loss. Edward Manners is 32 years old, gay, and disillusioned with his life in England. He arrives in an ancient Flemish city to work as a language tutor, also hoping to get some writing done.
Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star , won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His most recent novels are The Spell (1998), and The Line of Beauty , which won the 2004 Man Booker Prize.
17 de dez. de 2008 · The Folding Star: A Novel. Kindle Edition. 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.
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- Alan Hollinghurst
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.
28 de jun. de 2018 · The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' – Evening Standard Edward Manners – thirty three and disaffected – escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
