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Fragonard's Progress of Love by Alan Hollinghurst; Xavier F. Salomon
Category: Art and Design | Series: Frick Diptych Ser.
An essay by Xavier F. Salomon paired with a contribution by award-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst bring to life Jean-Honoré Fragonard's (1732-1806) Progress of Love, a series of fourteen paintings considered by many to be the artist's masterpiece. The paintings were commissioned in 1771 for the comte ...Show more
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction
Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890's Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th
Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Ni ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2004. The book, set in the 1980's, begins when 20 year old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel and their two children. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick finds his life ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction
"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire 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 ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction
"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire 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 ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Audio Books
In October 1940 the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he seems at first unaware of the effect he has on others - particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist, and himself destined to become a writer. While the Blitz rages in ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst' -- EsquireFrom 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 October 19 ...Show more