The Stranger's Child: Picador Classic (Picador Collection #64)

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Synopsis
A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.The Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the Year.In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George’s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger’s Child is Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built and broken. It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.
Copyright:
2011

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
576 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781447203988
Related ISBNs:
9781035028009, 9780330483278
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Alan Hollinghurst
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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