books by Alan Hollinghurst     books:       The Folding Star: A Novel23 reviews Alan Hollinghurst Bloomsbury USA, 2005 An Sprawling and Admirable Epic THE FOLDING STAR is a sprawling neo-Victorian achievement, full of memorable characters, breathtaking description, and graphic gay sex. At its surface the novel is the story of Edward Manners - a 40ish, drinky, and rather raunchy former academic who relocates to a small Belgian town to work as a tutor. Almost at once Edward becomes infatuated with Luc, a student. His obsession is comic, ...             The Ivory Tower (New York Review Books Classics 2004) Henry James NYRB Classics, 2004 In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America's Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower , his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction?in which American "innocence" is transformed by its encounter with European ...             A. E. Housman (Poet to Poet) A.E. Housman Faber and Faber, 2005 Poetry Selected and with an Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. Alan Hollinghurst called A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad "the most vital English poetry collection of the 1890s and perhaps of the whole period from the death of Tennyson until Hardy's Satire of Circumstances. " Drawing heavily on this volume, Hollinghurst gathers here a resonant collection of verse from Housman's entire oeuvre that, with its emphasis on the inevitable decay ...             HOWARD HODGKIN HOWARD). Hollinghurst, Alan, Philip Larkin & Seamus Heaney (HODGKIN Gagosian Gallery, 2008             The Line of Beauty: A Novel109 reviews Alan Hollinghurst Bloomsbury USA, 2005 A Modern Cousin Bette I have to respond to the 1-star review because it's so angry and wrongheaded. As an author, I read very widely, but it's the rare book that makes me wish I had writtten it; that is, lived the experience and had the insight that brought this book to fruition. To have emerged from inside rather than approach it as a reader, if that makes sense. Recently I've felt that with Ian McEwan's ...             Bruges-La-Morte (Dedalus European Classics)4 reviews Georges Rodenbach Dedalus,, 2005 Death of Passion Bruges-la-Morte is a short, 100-page novella about compensation for death and the loss of love through the loss of love and death. The story is perfectly fin-de-siècle both in its dark, self-indulgent central figure, Hugues Viane, and in the voluptuousness of its writing. Bruges participates fully in the decadence of the narrative--the decaying propriety of the city with its small-minded, ...             Swimming Pool Library24 reviews Alan Hollinghurst Vintage, 1989 Stellar debut...in spite of flaws The Swimming-Pool Library is British author Alan Hollinghurt's first novel. He has achieved more fame this year due to his winning the Booker. I very much like Hollinghurst's prose style...it's very elegant, yet still passionate. There is also a rawness to the experiences Hollinghurst describes. In this novel, we are introduced to William Beckwith, an effete aristocrat who leads a rather ...             The Spell29 reviews Alan Hollinghurst Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000 The Least Gay Fiction by A Gay Author I am enchanted by this novel. It has everything a good tale should have. Love, flirtation, disappointment in the lives of the four main characters, suspension and denouement in their actions or passivity, a wonderful description of the environment in which these upper-middle class Englishmen move, a lovely style so full of unexpected turns of phrase and new insights for someone like me who was ...             The Line of Beauty3 reviews Alan Hollinghurst Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004 Great literature I thought the writing was excellent, pure literature. The story and characters were a little hard to get into in the beginning; but then it pulls you in, holds you, and defies you to put it down as you get to the end. The main characters were beautifully nuanced. The dialog was excellent and the descriptions were amazing. Not only do I know these characters, I feel I was there with them ...             La Linea de La Belleza Alan Hollinghurst Anagrama, 2006             Die Schwimmbad- Bibliothek. Alan Hollinghurst Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 1994              search for books 2004, beauty, belleza, bibliothek, books, bruges, bruges-la-morte, classics, dedalus, european, folding, hodgkin, housman, howard, ivory, library, line, linea, morte, new, novel, poet, pool, review, schwimmbad, spell, star, swimming, tower, york books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Andre Rieu in Wonderland (incl bonus CD) leave a comment home  impressum - about us