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Alan Hollinghurst

Autore di The Line of Beauty

21+ opere 10,618 membri 270 recensioni 43 preferito

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La casa sull'acqua (1979) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,315 copie
Bruges la morta (1892) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni451 copie
Flesh and the Word: An Anthology of Erotic Writing (1992) — Collaboratore — 193 copie
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Collaboratore — 188 copie
Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 (1993) — Collaboratore — 177 copie
The Ivory Tower (1917) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni136 copie
Man of My Dreams: Provocative Writing on Men Loving Men (1996) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica (1997) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers (1999) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Britten and Auden in the Thirties (1981) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni16 copie
The Line of Beauty [TV miniseries] (2006) — Original novel — 16 copie
Nemo's almanac: a quiz for book lovers (2017) — Introduzione — 12 copie

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The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst in Booker Prize (Novembre 2020)

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I don't know how to rate this. Until about fifty pages from the end, I sort of had a cohesive idea of it; it frustrated me somewhat and occasionally bored me, but I felt like I could talk about it: the writing, the sort of intergenerational fetishization of black men, the way that I kind of wish any other character in this were the protagonist...
Now I'm much more aggravated but also much more interested in it. It's beautiful and totally unresolved in the kind of way that reminds me somewhat of My Fair Lady.… (altro)
 
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localgayangel | 35 altre recensioni | Mar 5, 2024 |
Although the story is different, the structure of this book reminded me a lot of the last Hollinghurst I read, The Stranger's Child. At the core there's the lived experience of one person, but that person remains in the shadows while others live their lives in the centre, and keep coming against the unknowable core but getting their own impressions and reflections of it. There's also the frequently awkward relationship Johathan has with his father David, and how people of certain age seem to be interested in him only because of it.… (altro)
 
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mari_reads | 21 altre recensioni | Jan 21, 2024 |
A strange, melancholy book redeemed by some of the most nuanced descriptions of commonplace feelings I've ever read.
 
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mmparker | 75 altre recensioni | Oct 24, 2023 |
In the first part of this book, in the 1910s before the first world war, Cecil, a poet, arrives to visit his friend George and his family—his mother, brother Hubert, and sister Daphne. Out of the visit comes a poem that later becomes famous, initially written in Daphne's autograph book but probably written George in mind. What follows in the later parts is the afterlife of Cecil, who died in the war, with a fancy memorial at the family estate and collected poems edited and published by a friend. Generation after generation, new people find themselves interested in him and try to understand what he was actually like, but ways to getting to that are increasingly difficult. People only know their own stories, didn't want to know, didn't have the words, made their memories into stories they were comfortable sharing, put their papers and photos away and forgot about them. At the end, there are only maybes and theories and speculation, a tantalising gap that just cannot be filled. For me, this aspect was the most compelling thing about the book, the characters much less so.… (altro)
 
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mari_reads | 75 altre recensioni | Sep 15, 2023 |

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Opere
21
Opere correlate
15
Utenti
10,618
Popolarità
#2,240
Voto
½ 3.6
Recensioni
270
ISBN
222
Lingue
19
Preferito da
43

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