Strangers Child
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Strangers Child
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, but its deepest impact will be on Georges sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fort In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, but its deepest impact will be on Georges sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by successive generations. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic, The Strangers Child is a masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change.
Details
Title | Strangers Child |
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Author | Alan Hollinghurst |
ISBN-13 | 9780330483278 |
ISBN-10 | 0330483278 |
Publisher | Picador USA |
Language | English |
Edition | NA |
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Height | 198 mm |
Width | 129 mm |
Thickness | 36 mm |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 576 |