The Folding Star (signed Limited Edition Vintage Proof)

Alan Hollinghurst

ISBN 10: 0701159138 / ISBN 13: 9780701159139

Published by Viking, London, 1995

About this Item

Limited Edition Vintage Proof to celebrate the Vintage Fifth birthday. Booker prize shortlisted, signed by author to title page. A Fine tight clean copy which appears to be unread.

Seller Inventory # 000819

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Folding Star (signed Limited Edition Vintage Proof)
• Publisher: Viking, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701159138
• ISBN 13: 9780701159139
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Edward Manners, a young British man in search of fresh air, arrives in a small Flemish town to teach English and soon falls in love with one of his students, Luc Altidore, an enigmatic seventeen-year-old boy who has just been expelled from the school.

While in England an old lover dies of AIDS, in the small Flemish town Edward meets a series of peculiar characters: Cherif, a Moroccan born in Paris who frequents the local gay bar; the eccentric Matt, who sells pornographic material and used underwear, and Paul Echevin, father of another of his students and director of the local museum, who introduces him to the devious world of Edgard Orst, a symbolist painter who died during the Nazi occupation, who lived a rapt passion for a famous actress and painted striking triptychs.

And like a triptych this novel is structured in which Hollinghurst demonstrates his talent to mix the refined and the sordid, and to delve into the ins and outs of desire and passions, masterfully combining tragedy and humor.

From the Inside Flap

In self-imposed exile in an ancient Flemish city, an embittered 33-year-old language tutor, Edward Manners, falls in love with his alluring 17-year-old pupil, Luc Altidore. As Edward pursues the elusive object of his infatuation--and plunges into affairs with two other men--this book interweaves past and present, history and memory, into a tapestry of unfulfillable desire.