# The Folding Star

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- Book: [The Folding Star](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-hollinghurst/the-folding-star) ([The Folding Star.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-hollinghurst/the-folding-star.md))
- Authors: [Alan Hollinghurst](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-hollinghurst)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-691-7
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2006-03-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery... The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening Standard Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst. ‘A generous pinch of true wit’ Sunday Times