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- 2018
- year of publication
- 996
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Macmillan Digital Audio
- ISBN-13
- 978-15-0988-892-4
- EAN
- 9781509888924
- Publication date
- 2018-06-28
- Book
- The Folding Star · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition
Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. '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. 'As is typical of the best classics, he has fashioned a universal tale of sexual obsession, love and death out of a particular life' – Marie Claire Pre-order the new novel from Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings , now.
