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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 as homosexuality has been decriminalised.
Hear from Man Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst as he discusses his latest novel, The Sparsholt Affair and reflects candidly on the new-found fre...
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Alan Hollinghurst is the award-winning author of "The Swimming Pool Library", "The Folding Star", and 2004 Man Booker Prize winner "The Line of Beauty". In t...
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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...
Oct 5, 2017 · His sixth book evokes the intimate lives of three generations of the Sparsholt family, from Oxford University in 1940 to present-day London. There’s a scandal involving one of the family in the...
Oct 4, 2017 · Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair, which traces a family and changing attitudes to sexuality across generations.
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May 29, 2018 · Beginning in Oxford during the Second World War and ending in London in 2013, The Sparsholt Affair is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets, told through the lives of three generations of one family. In this series of videos, Alan Hollinghurst discusses the novel, its themes and characters, and shares his reasons for writing ...
