3782410
9780140286373
"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."Hollinghurst, Alan is the author of 'Spell', published 2000 under ISBN 9780140286373 and ISBN 0140286373.
[read more]