# The Sparsholt Affair

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- Authors: [Alan Hollinghurst](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-hollinghurst)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-11-0187-308-3
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2019-02-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1940, the handsome, athletic, and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated...