"The Swimming-Pool Library" von Alan Hollinghurst ist ein Roman, der das Leben des jungen, wohlhabenden und homosexuellen Protagonisten William Beckwith im London der 1980er Jahre erkundet. Die Geschichte beginnt, als Will in einem...

„Der Hirtenstern“ (Originaltitel: „The Stranger's Child“) von Alan Hollinghurst ist ein komplexer und vielschichtiger Roman, der sich über fast ein Jahrhundert erstreckt. Die Geschichte beginnt im Jahr 1913, als der junge Dichter Cecil...

The Sparsholt Affair von Hollinghurst, Alan

Sie sind ein ungleiches Paar, der junge William Beckwith und der alte Lord Nantwich. William genießt sein Leben in vollen Zügen - verliebt, sorglos. Es ist der letzte Sommer, bevor Aids in die Welt einbricht. Der schwule Untergrund...

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 of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime...

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord...

The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's Sunday Times Novel of the Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies...

'A highlight of Hollinghurst's career, and one of the best books of the year' Independent In 1940, David Sparsholt goes up to Oxford University. Charismatic and good-looking, he seems to have little awareness of the effect he has on...

Paperback edition of this tale of modern gay life. Four men, clubbing, casual sex and drugs all make up this comedy of sexual manners. "A sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue... stylish, original, bizzarely beautiful" "Sunday...

Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters...

Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside;...