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Sparsholt Affair

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Wartime Oxford, enduring intimacy, generational saga.

The Sparsholt Affair is a vivid journey through the lives of intriguing characters across pivotal moments in history. If you're drawn to beautifully written tales that weave personal narratives with societal change, this could be your literary gem. Alan Hollinghurst excels in creating an atmospheric setting that serves as a backdrop to complex relationships and emotional depth, capturing both the intimate and the epic in a single, compelling read.

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Sparsholt Affair

Regular price ₱490.05
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ISBN: 9781447208228
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Date of Publication: 2018-04-25
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: World War II, LGBTQ+
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 6027 readers)

Description

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his powerful effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely and romantic son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty, of secret liaisons under the cover of blackouts. A friendship develops between David and Evert that will influence their lives for decades to come. Alan Hollinghurst's sweeping new novel evokes across three generations the intimate relationships of a group of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. We witness shifts in taste and morality through a series of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's son Johnny, a painter in 1970s London. Richly observed, emotionally charged, this dazzling novel of fathers and sons, of family and legacy, explores the social and sexual revolutions of the past century, even as it takes us straight to the heart of our current age.
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Wartime Oxford, enduring intimacy, generational saga.

The Sparsholt Affair is a vivid journey through the lives of intriguing characters across pivotal moments in history. If you're drawn to beautifully written tales that weave personal narratives with societal change, this could be your literary gem. Alan Hollinghurst excels in creating an atmospheric setting that serves as a backdrop to complex relationships and emotional depth, capturing both the intimate and the epic in a single, compelling read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.