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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Sparsholt_AffairThe Sparsholt Affair - Wikipedia

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   In 1940 Freddie Green, a literature student, has rooms that overlook the room of a handsome young seventeen year old named David Sparsholt. Two of Freddie's friends, Peter Coyle, an artist, and Evert Dax, the son of an influential writer, both see Sparsholt and develop an obsession with him.

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3. slate.com › culture › 2018Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair, reviewed.

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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...

4. www.ft.com › content › d134829c-a75e-11e7-ab66-21ccThe Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst — a study in subtlety

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   Oct 6, 2017 · The Sparsholt Affair, like Hollinghurst’s previous novel The Stranger’s Child, is a multi-generational portrait of gay life in the 20th century. What’s new is the way in which Hollinghurst ...

5. inews.co.uk › culture › booksThe Sparsholt Affair is a tender evocation of gay British life

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   Oct 5, 2017 · Perhaps surprisingly for a novel exploring gay life, the opening section is narrated by a straight character who observes several of his male friends becoming besotted with the handsome and hyper...

6. www.youtube.com › watchAlan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair - YouTube

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   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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7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/03/19A Novel of Sex and Secrecy - The New Yorker

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   Mar 12, 2018 · A Novel of Sex and Secrecy. Longing, wronging, and belonging in Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Sparsholt Affair.” By Alexandra Schwartz. March 12, 2018. Hollinghurst’s latest generation-spanning...

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   What's new in the Sparsholt Affair?

   • The Sparsholt Affair, like Hollinghurst’s previous novel The Stranger’s Child, is a multi-generational portrait of gay life in the 20th century. What’s new is the way in which Hollinghurst makes these themes seem satisfyingly ambiguous and open-ended.

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   Is the Sparsholt Affair based on a true story?

   • 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 politicians and the exchange of money for sex, but with a twist: In Hollinghurst’s novel, the sex is between men, which was as illegal as prostitution at that time.

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   Who wrote the Sparsholt Affair?

   • Preceded by The Stranger's Child  The Sparsholt Affairis the sixth novel written by Britishauthor Alan Hollinghurst.

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   Is the Sparsholt Affair a Jamesian novel?

   • 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 manner. It opens with a memoir written by a straight, middle-aged writer called Freddie Green, reflecting on his experiences as a student at Oxford in 1940.

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   Who is Freddie Green in the Sparsholt Affair?

   • The Sparsholt Affair begins with the brief memoir of a supporting character, Freddie Green, one of a group of young friends at Oxford in 1940, all of the men on the brink of going to war. One fateful night, they glimpse through a window the hunky David Sparsholt lifting hand weights in a room across the quad.

   Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair, reviewed

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   Who is David Sparsholt?

   • Into this world moves David Sparsholt — young, sporty and a bit of a philistine — who becomes the unknow­able centre of the novel.

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9. www.townandcountrymag.com › leisure › arts-andAuthor Alan Hollinghurst on How His New Novel 'The Sparsholt ...

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   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 screen.