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From the internationally acclaimed champion of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new book that spans seven transformative ages in England - from the 1940s for this - as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of your exceptional family. In 1940, David Sparsholt finds Oxford to study anatomist, though his sights are arranged on becoming a member of the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unacquainted with his effect on others - especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of your celebrated novelist who's destined to become writer himself. Together with the world at warfare, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford nevertheless prevails at a bizarre remove: a location of fleeting beauty - and magic formula liaisons. A a friendly relationship develops between both of these young men that will have unpredicted repercussions as the book unfolds. Alan Hollinghurst's new book explores the legacy of David Sparsholt across three decades, on friends and family alike; we experience through its individuals changes in flavour, morality, and private life in a series of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric communal gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's kid Johnny, a painter in 1970s London; the push and move in a group of friends brought collectively by art, literature, and love. And causing the increasing openness of gay life, The Sparsholt Affair becomes a deep breathing on human transience, even while it poignantly expresses the longing for permanence and continuity. Witty, sensitive, epic in scope yet abundant with observation, this is a amazing book of fathers and sons; of family and home by the article writer hailed by The Wall Avenue Journal as "one of the best novelists at work today".
