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008			170914s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017032901
020			_a9781101874561 (hardback)
042			_apcc
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dMvI
050	0	0	_aPR6058.O4467 _bS6 2017
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100	1		_aHollinghurst, Alan,
245	1	4	_aThe sparsholt affair / _cAlan Hollinghurst.
250			_aFirst United States edition.
263			_a1803
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2017.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"
520			_a"From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England--from the 1940s to the present--as it plumbs the richly 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 effect on others--especially on Evert Dax, the lonely 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 nevertheless exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty--and secret liaisons. A friendship develops between these two young men that will have unexpected consequences as the novel unfolds. Alan Hollinghurst's new novel explores the legacy of David Sparsholt across three generations, on friends and family alike; we experience through its characters changes in taste, morality, and private life in a sequence of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric social gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's son Johnny, a painter in 1970s London; the push and pull in a group of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. And evoking the increasing openness of gay life, The Sparsholt Affair becomes a meditation on human transience, even as it poignantly expresses the longing for permanence and continuity."-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A multi-generational story of fathers and sons during the second half of the twentieth century in England"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMale friendship _vFiction.
650		0	_aHomosexuality _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Historical. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Gay. _2bisacsh
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