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Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger’s Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.Hollinghurst is a master storyteller ... thrilling in the rather awful way that the best Victorian novels are, so that one finds oneself galloping somewhat shamefacedly through the pages in order to discover what happens next.
- John Banville,
Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving.
Evening Standard
Dazzlingly good: the best new novel I’ve read this year. Once again, Hollinghurst is both utterly sumptuous and utterly precise
Spectator
Mr. Hollinghurst's great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just an inch to the left of the view they themselves would catch in the mantelpiece mirror.
The New York Observer
Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair is startling, radical, embedded in tradition but entirely new in final effect – the novel that other novelists were all talking about this year.
- Philip Hensher, Guardian
A sweeping and intimate masterpiece, full of sensual pleasures and observational wisdom
- Geoff Dyer, Guardian
Thrillingly stylish and gripping
- Alex Preston, Guardian
But for narrative ambition and sheer comic joy, by far the best thing I’ve read this year . . . A novel with brains and heart and balls — the kind you find yourself wanting to read at two speeds at once: very quickly, so that you can get on to the next page, and very slowly, so that you can linger over each beautifully crafted sentence. He’s a writer who makes every word sing
- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Spectator
Audacious, ambitious . . . an absorbingly complex novel reaching across seven decades . . . Hollinghurst's prose delights
The Times, Saturday Review
Beautiful; moving . . . he writes with subtlety and sympathy; wisdom and understanding
New York Times
A highlight of Hollinghurst’s career, and one of the best books of the year . . . a true master
Independent
My favourite living novelist
- Charlotte Mendelson, Guardian
Richly textured and alive with ironic wit . . . An ambitious novel of family, sexuality and art
The Sunday Times
Captures the changing nature of the homosexual experience as the country moves from shame and criminality to openness [and] dating apps
The Times
Alluring, virtuosic, cinematic . . . The traditional novel form seems as pleasurable and humanly true as ever in his hands
New Yorker
Deeply pleasurable . . . written with poise, lucidity and pathos
Harper's
A wonder, full of wit and tenderness . . . there is no better stylist alive [than] Hollinghurst
Slate
Perhaps Hollinghurst’s most beautiful novel yet—a book full of glorious sentences by the greatest prose stylist writing in English today . . . An unashamedly readable novel, undoubtedly the work of a master
The Observer
It’s not often that readers see such a fundamental rethinking of what fiction can do, and rarer still that the result is such a joy
- Philip Hensher, Spectator
The immense assurance of the writing, the deep knowledge of the settings and periods in which the story unfolds, the mingling of cruel humour and lyrical tenderness, the insatiable interest in human desire from its most refined to its most brutally carnal, grip you as tightly as any thriller
The Guardian
A novelist with a particular genius for inhabiting the past [and] an extraordinary gift for the condensing and enriching detail . . . Ravishing
- Adam Mars-Jones, LRB
Breathtaking . . . the novel chronicles a handful of queer friendships–the way they bent and twisted and sometimes even shattered, the reverberations of each affecting generation after generation of queer people who came after them
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