9780140286373
The Spell
Alan Hollinghurst
ISBN 13: 9780140286373
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
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The lives and relationships of four men intersect in this tale of gay love set during a long summer in England. By the author of The Swimming-Pool Library. Reprint.
Review:
"A meticulous exterior eye surveys the particulars of gay life....And yet reading this relatively short novel feels laborious. It lacks the campy excessiveness of THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY, and the engaging wy tone of THE FOLDING STAR....There is something of Proust's grand sense of a Sodom in which aristocratic souls are condemned to absurd physical debasements."
John Updike, New Yorker, 05/31/1999
Review:"Like its two predecessors, Alan Hollinghurst's third novel is almost entirely devoted to the subject of male homosexual desire, but it's the only one of his books you could really call a 'gay novel'....The book sometimes feels as if it's meant to be parodying the themes of the author's earlier ones: here, betrayal is merely cheating, and obsession is nothing more than randiness."
Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times Book Review, 04/25/1999
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Book Description: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reissue. 198 x 128 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old son Danny; and Justin's former boyfriend Alex, whose life is unexpectedly transformed by a night of house music and a tab of ecstasy. As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love, and of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life: the hunger for contact and the fear of commitment, the need for permanence and the continual disruptions of sex. Ultimately, The Spell details the restlessness of every human heart. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780140286373 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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