Buy this book on-line Hollinghurst, Alan : The Folding StarChatto & Windus, 1994 ISBN 0701159138
Signed by Author(s)the jacket is bit edge worn and shelf rubbed. Signed by the author. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hollinghurst, Alan : The Folding Star. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HOLLINGHURST**, ALAN: : The Folding Star. **LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1994. ISBN 0701159138.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour wrap-around artwork,by Howard Hodgkin,dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major tears or splits present. Top,rear edge dw/dj is slightly creased with some miniscule rubbing to laminate and a minute closed tear to top,rear corner and a tiny impression/indent near foot of upper board's spine/backstrip edge.Top+fore-edges clean; contents pristine.Blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-422pp [paginated] includes 3 sections/parts comprising 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] title page,A cknowledgements,poetry extract (in French) by Henri de Regnier,sections/parts separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear.
Acclaimed author's elusive 2nd novel,after his highly acclaimed debut novel 'The Swimming Pool Library' (1988).'The Folding Star' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year,many expecting it to win,but it didn't.However his next novel 'Line of Beauty' did win the same prize in 2004.
Edward Manners - thirty-three,disaffected,in search of a new life - has come to an ancient Flemish city to teach English.Almost at once he falls in love with one of his pupils,the seventeen-year-old Luc Altidore,recently expelled from school for some mysterious offence.Condemned to a mounting but incommunicable obsession with the boy,Edward becomes involved in affairs with two other men: one a heartless but seductive fraud,the other a young drifter with a possessive streak.
The events of 'The Folding Star' are played out amongst the silent streets and canals of a city that seems locked in the past,and across the northern landscape of out-of-season resorts and abandoned houses that lies beyond.But in the central panel of the novel's triptych Edward returns home for a funeral,and is caught up in memories of his own late adolescence and his first love affair: an English pastoral already threatened by the experience of betrayal and loss.For all its dark preoccupations,'The Folding Star' is infused with a subtle wit and an exhilarating sense of the high comedy of infatuation and of the workings of sexual obsession.A compelling meditation on love and time,it is also a mystery story whose central enigma is unresolved until its very last lines.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A genuine UK first edition/first printing,with the full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page.] VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - but half-title page has been neatly removed (probably because of previous owner's inscrptn/name and could withstand sympathetic repair and/or restoration?).Book would've been graded as FINE but for this fault/defect,so honestly described as VG! Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with some minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - majority of creasing along top edges of dw/dj.Top rear corner minisculely rubbed and some minimal,superficial scoring/indents. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate dark blue endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-422pp [paginated] includes 3 sections/parts comprising 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] title page,
Acknowledgements,A poetry extract (in French) by Henri de Regnier,sections/parts separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear.
Internationally acclaimed author's elusive 2nd novel,following his highly praised debut novel 'The Swimming-Pool Library'.
'The Folding Star' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year,many expecting it to win,but it didn't.However his next novel 'Line of Beauty' did win the same prize in 2004.
Edward Manners - thirty-three,disaffected,in search of a new life - has come to an ancient Flemish city to teach English.Almost at once he falls in love with one of his pupils,the seventeen-year-old Luc Altidore,recently expelled from school for some mysterious offence.
Condemmed to a mounting but incommunicable obsession with the boy,Edward becomes involved in affairs with two other men: one a heartless but seductive fraud,the other a young drifter with a deeply possessive streak.
Then Edward is introduced to the world of the enigmatic and reclusive Symbolist painter Edgard Orst.
Gradually he is drawn towards an understanding of the artist's own obsession with a famous actress,drowned off Ostend at the turn of the century,and of the ambiguous circumstances of Orst's own death under Nazi Occupation.
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