Summary
‘A sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue… stylish, original, bizarrely beautiful’ - Francis Wyndham, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
Discover this ‘sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue’ (Telegraph) from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty.
The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin;…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099276944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099276941 |
| Author: | Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting…brilliant imagery…and hilarious cross-purpose jokes… Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic
“The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting…brilliant imagery…and hilarious cross-purpose jokes… Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic” Independent “A masterpiece of sustained literary titillation” The Times “Love, lust and loss among a group of middle-class gay Englishmen… Young and old, the town and the country, the wild and respectable: Holinghurst explores each of these uneasy conflicts with wit, generosity and sharply observed comedy” Mail on Sunday “A bewitchingly beautiful tale… confirms his pre-eminence among the prose writers of his generation” Daily Telegraph “Comic fantasy is grounded in a wealth of sharp observation and psychological insight. Hollinghurst has lost none of his authority” Evening Standard
About The Author
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.
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