by Alan Hollinghurst · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447208228
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«The Sparsholt Affair» is the novel by Alan Hollinghurst, published by Picador in paperback (454 pages, in English).
David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford in 1940 intending to join the RAF and strikes up a friendship with Evert Dax, the solitary son of a celebrated novelist. The novel follows David and his circle across three generations, travelling from Cornwall to London in the 1970s, portraying changes in taste, morality and private life in twentieth-century England.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of The Line of Beauty, winner of the Man Booker Prize. The novel was originally published in 2017; this paperback edition dates from 2018.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in a generational portrait of British society and the evolution of private life.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
