Ebook {Epub PDF} The Strangers Child by Alan Hollinghurst

Few novels so skillfully revealed what's really said behind polite facades, and The Stranger's Child displays that talent on a broader canvas Hollinghurst is a superior novelist of manners, and the brilliance of The Stranger's Child is in how it reveals the ways bad blood and secrets muck with history/5().  · ALAN 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 Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts - haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism - The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. 1. She'd .

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The Stranger's Child is the fifth novel by Alan Hollinghurst, first published in June The book tells the story of a minor poet, Cecil Valance, who is killed in the First World War. In , he visits a Cambridge friend, George Sawle, at the latter's home in Stanmore, Middlesex. While there Valance writes a poem entitled "Two Acres", about the Sawles' house and addressed, ambiguously, either to George himself or to George's younger sister, Daphne. The Stranger's Child begins in , with the handsome aristocratic Cambridge student and poet Cecil Valance visiting his college friend Geo In every phrase he finds the perfect word. Yet the precision is in service to his storytelling and never overwhelms it. The Stranger’s Child (), a novel by English poet and novelist Alan Hollinghurst, follows amateur poet Cecil Valance, whose life and tragic death in combat during World War I are modeled after the real-life figure Rupert Brooke. Broken up into five sections, the book traces the evolution of Cecil’s career and persona from its early roots in pre-war England, where he writes a poem that elevates him to fame.