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Product Identifiers

PublisherPan Macmillan

ISBN-100330483277

ISBN-139780330483278

eBay Product ID (ePID)219636715

Product Key Features

Original LanguageEnglish

Book TitleStranger's Child

Number of Pages576 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSagas, Family Life, Literary, Historical

Publication Year2012

GenreFiction

AuthorAlan Hollinghurst

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisIn the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact., Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic poet, is visiting Two Acres, the home of his Cambridge friend and lover, George Sawle. On his departure, Cecil leaves a poem, dedicated to George's younger sister Daphne, which when published becomes a touchstone for a generation, symbolizing an England in its final glory. Meanwhile Daphne has also become involved with Cecil's family, visiting their Victorian Gothic country house, Corley, and developing a relationship with Cecil's brooding, manipulative brother, Dudley, that will link the families for ever. The Stranger's Child begins as a novel about two families and two houses: by the time it reaches its profound and moving conclusion, it has become an epic tale told in five parts covering almost a hundred years. Like The Line of Beauty, this is a deliciously funny novel, glittering with acute observation and arch insight into the worlds of those who belong and of those who are excluded, of carefully hidden secrets which are finally, dramatically revealed., The UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty : a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

LC Classification NumberPR6058.O4467S77 2012