# 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: Macmillan Digital Audio
- ISBN: 978-15-0988-892-4
- Pages: 996
- Published: 2018-06-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.