Alan Hollinghurst

Join us for a reading group discussion of Swimming-pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst!

Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs)

This controversial, darkly erotic novel of male homosexuality and promiscuity before the scourge of AIDS was "easily one of the year's (1988) most important debuts."

Parking: Lots one block north and one block east; street parking (meters free after 7pm)

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Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs) Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for a reading group discussion of The stranger's child by Alan Hollinghurst!

Venue: Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs)

A magnificent century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery across generations, which is threatened to be unearthed by an ambitious biographer.

Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Central West End Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Our Paperback Fiction Book Club is reading < The stranger's child > by Alan Hollinghurst in December and meeting on the third Sunday of the month: Sun., 12/16/12, 6:15pm.

While we don't charge a membership fee for our Avid Book Clubs, the only way we can offer you this free service is if you buy the book club books from Avid.

You can order < The stranger's child > online here and request in-store pickup if you'd like to save on shipping costs: http://www.avidbookshop.com/book/9780307474346

RSVPing to this FB event DOES NOT mean you are registered. ~~>Email Rachel (avid.athens.rachel@gmail.com) or call the shop (706-352-2060) to join our book clubs.

We may have to limit participation so it's important that you tell us if you would like to join.

Location: Street: 493 Prince Ave Additional: City: Athens, Province: Georgia Postal Code: 30601 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Alan Hollinghurst signs The Stranger's Child.

About The Book: Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel in seven years is a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth—and a family mystery—across generations. In 1913, George Sawle brings charming, handsome Cecil Valance to his family’s modest home outside London for a summer weekend. George is enthralled by his Cambridge schoolmate, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by both Cecil and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will be recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with the author’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, wicked humor, and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, and about how the heart creates its own history. (jasbro)… (more)