Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library; The Folding Star; The Spell; The Line of Beauty, winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Stranger's Child . He has also 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. He lives in London.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library; The Folding Star; The Spell; The Line of Beauty, winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Stranger's Child . He has also 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. He lives in London. See less
Alan Hollinghurst's Featured Books
Alan Hollinghurst book reviews
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The Stranger's Child
Great Read
by JOHN C, Jul 25, 2013
The Strangers Child see's Alan Hollinghurst at the height of his literary genius. Set over nearly a century, the book opens with the arrival of a minor poet whom over the years has a effect on ... Read More
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The Line of Beauty
Henry James with sex
by apollo, Oct 4, 2011
"Jamesian" is to me a term of disparagement--wordy and displaying how to write and to say very little in the process. But this book does say something--lessons in how to be a loser. (Wouldn't it be ... Read More
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The Line of Beauty
language as art
by bud19, Sep 18, 2008
if you have never read alan hollinghurst, prepare yourself for a display of the english language as few can ever hope to accomplish. soaring prose...language as art. having read all four of his major ... Read More