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The Line of Beauty: A Novel
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Interview with Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Priz... »
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The Folding Star: A Novel
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I was a bit more impressed with Hollinghurst's technical skills here than engaged by the actual story, which revisits aspects of Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE in far more sprawling fashion.
Hollinghurst is a nearly-brilliant writer, though the very lush prose I found to be a touch distracting. But it may be entirely approriate in a tale... »
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Swimming Pool Library
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Everyone seems to rave about this book. It is fairly entertaining, though the constant, nonstop barrage of one-off sexual shenanigans tends to weary this jaded reader. The narrator is such an annoyingly self-obsessed, self-centered waste of time that I had a hard time making it through the end of the book. And then, of course, there is no real end to t... »
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The Spell
Alan Hollinghurst writes like a dream about the nightmare of unequal affection. In his third novel, The Spell, four men dance around one another, t... »
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The Line of Beauty
Then this book isn't for you. I gave it an extra star because it really is well-written but, my God, how boring! I'll never understand why books like th... »
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