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The Sparsholt Affair is the sixth novel written by British author Alan Hollinghurst. The novel explores the changing attitudes towards homosexuality in England through the lives of two men: David Sparsholt, a teenager briefly attending Oxford during the Second World War, and his openly gay son, Johnny Sparsholt, who comes of age in London just ...
Oct 5, 2017 · Alan Hollinghurst interview: Money is killing off London. Perhaps surprisingly for a novel exploring gay life, the opening section is narrated by a straight character who observes several of his...
Oct 19, 2023 · In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself.
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Mar 21, 2018 · The title of Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, The Sparsholt Affair, is the moniker given to a fictional British scandal from the 1960s. Like the real-life Profumo affair, it involves Tory ...
Mar 19, 2018 · Alan Hollinghurst spoke with Town & Country about creating his beautiful new book, 'The Sparsholt Affair', why he hates research, and when his most famous novel might make it to the big...
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Mar 12, 2018 · “The Sparsholt Affair” plays out across nearly a century of gay life in England. It begins in 1940 when David Sparsholt, an impossibly handsome young man bound for a military career, arrives...
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Oct 6, 2017 · Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel The Sparsholt Affair — as accomplished and pleasurable as anything he has written — constantly asks us to read over the shoulders of its characters in a Jamesian...
