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The Stranger's Child (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307474346)
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xA National Book Critics Award finalist from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance--to his family's home outside London. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him. That weekend, Cecil writes a poem that, after he is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried--until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.Author: Alan Hollinghurst
ISBN-10: 0307474348
ISBN-13: 9780307474346
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2012
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/30/2012 pg. 28
By Alan Hollinghurst
xALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
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