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Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst


Engels | 03-10-2024 | 486 pagina's

9781035038534

Paperback / softback


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A stunning portrait of modern England from one of Britains finest novelists.

Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.

Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.

Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on—through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security.

From “one of our most gifted writers” (The Boston Globe), Our Evenings sweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.

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EAN :9781035038534
Auteur: 
Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Publicatie datum :  03-10-2024
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Hoogte :233 mm
Breedte :153 mm
Dikte :39 mm
Gewicht :608 gr
Status : Bestelbaar
Aantal pagina's :486