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The Folding Star
- Author
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrator
- Samuel West
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 28 June 2018
- Run Time
- 16 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.
'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery . . . 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.
'As is typical of the best classics, he has fashioned a universal tale of sexual obsession, love and death out of a particular life' – Marie Claire
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Details
- Author
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrator
- Samuel West
- Duration
- 16 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 June 2018
- ISBN
- 9781509888924
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery . . . The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' – Evening StandardEdward 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.'As is typical of the best classics, he has fashioned a universal tale of sexual obsession, love and death out of a particular life' – Marie ClairePre-order the new novel from Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings, now.
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