The stranger s child will no doubt be one of the best novels published this year. When alan hollinghurst s celebrated the stranger s child was omitted from the booker prizes shortlist, many questioned the awards credibility. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the strangers child, the. To strip a man down, condemn him to be beaten, flayed alive, kirjaluotsi coates tanehisi, penguin books, ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, yhdysvallat 20102019 0 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika lue lisaa. Alan hollinghurst is the author of the novels the stranger s child, the swimmingpool 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. Of course hollinghursts enchanted garden is quite unlike any other seen in english literature. Forster award of the american academy of arts and letters, and the james tait black memorial prize for fiction. The strangers child june 2011 is the fifth novel by alan hollinghurst. To sell a child right from under his mother, you must know that mother only in the thinnest way possible. The stranger s child june 2011 is the fifth novel by alan hollinghurst. In 19 he visits a cambridge friend, george sawle, at the latters home in stanmore, middlesex. The book tells the story of a minor poet, cecil valance, who is killed in the first world war. See interview with alan hollinghurst on saturday 18 june. The strangers child by alan hollinghurst goodreads.
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