Our evenings
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A stunning portrait of modern England from one of Britain's finest novelists.
'The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too' – The Sunday Times
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.
Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence.
As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.
Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win’s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.
Our Evenings entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w/b 07-10-24.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 oktober 2024
Aantal pagina's: 496
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Alan Hollinghurst
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador
Product breedte: 163 mm
Product hoogte: 43 mm
Product lengte: 242 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 163 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 45 mm
Verpakking lengte: 312 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 732 g
EAN: 9781447208235