Ebook {Epub PDF} The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst

The Spell. Confirming his status as the preeminent new voice chronicling the worldly, debauched erotics of linguistically limber gay British men, Hollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library; The. Spell (), a gay comedy of manners which interweaves the complex relationships between something architect Robin Woodfield, his alcoholic lover Justin, and Justin's ex, timid civil servant Alex, who falls in love with Robin's son Danny. The action moves between the English countryside and London where Danny introduces Alex to ecstasy and the club bltadwin.ru Of Birth: Stroud, England. The Spell () was his third. Contemplate a novel that has not one protagonist but four. It seemed to me that Hollinghurst used four gay men—Robin, Justin, Alex (Justin’s ex), and Danny (Robin’s natural son by an American woman)—to make commentaries on gay manners and morals post-AIDS crisis/5.

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Alan Hollinghurst. Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May ) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. The Spell. Confirming his status as the preeminent new voice chronicling the worldly, debauched erotics of linguistically limber gay British men, Hollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library; The. At once lyrical, sceptical and romantic, The Spell confirms Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain’s most important novelists. About The Spell “The “spell” of the title is both the power of drugs, at the heart of the book, and the “sex-magic” that variously possesses – but then deserts – each of its main characters.”.