the folding star - Alan Hollinghurst
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The novel is the story of an English gay man, Edward Manners, who, disaffected with life, moves to a town in Flanders where he teaches two students English. One, Marcel, is good but ugly while the other, Luc, is bad but, to the protagonist, deeply beautiful. The novel also deals with Manners' emerging relationship with Marcel's father who curates a museum of symbolist paintings by Edgard Orst (modelled on Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor). Edward has an affair with a young foreigner named Cherif who falls deeply in love with him, but as Cherif is ordinary looking, Edward can never really return his affection. We see the same pattern in the novel's recounting of Edward's youthful affair years earlier (when he was even younger than Luc) with Dawn, a handsome but not particularly beautiful youth who later dies tragically. Edward soon became bored with him, and even now he can only gin up much feeling about Dawn by giving his past affair and the subsequent death of his old love a high literary treatment modeled af...
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1994Uitgever: chatto & windus422 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0701159138ISBN-13: 9780701159139Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Dikke hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Aantekening op binnenzijde cover. Engelstalig.; 1994; First edition; Chatto & Windus; 422 pagina's; Titel: The Folding Star; Ref: 220413 / H24P409A
