Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst


Started: 4/20/07
Finished: 4/24/07
Year: 1994
Pages: 437
Genre: Literature
Grade: D
Reason for reading: booksfree.com
Blurb (from back cover): "Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected thirty-three-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city. Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his pupils, but can only console himself with other affairs. With the novel, Hollinghurst exposes us fearlessly to the consequences of unfulfillable, annihilating desire.
Opinion: Eh. Not worth picking up in my opinion. Only finished it because I believe in attempting to finish every book I start.

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