It kills me to give two stars to a book that took me the better part of a week to read, that has all the trappings of a book I would enjoy, and that will probably go on to win a mantel of literary awards. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. We’d love your help. It even results in a new gay relationship. This novel explores Hollinghurst’s usual themes: sexuality, family and social dynamics and the nature of art and artists. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2018. It started out as some sort of Wuthering Heights spin-off, but with a gay twist to it. More From This Contributor. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2013. Unable to add item to List. This review may contain more information about the plot than you want to know. [Cecil's missing letters remain lost - perhaps forever. by Picador. Set across different time lines, it is occasionally difficult to keep up with the roll call of characters and the various relationships, but, like Jonathan Coe, Hollinghurst is good on the nature of time and how it shifts and warps our view of things, and how the past can never be fully recalled or captured with accuracy. I normally start a review with a little blurb giving an idea of what the book’s about. Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2011. You then become the stranger looking in but denied a part after connections are made and revealed to you. Perhaps it's because as a man, I lack the finesse to grasp the subtle stabs at the human condition, but to me it's just boring. I'm not sure what to think of this book. This book starts as a nice, late 19th century society novel, very conventionally told and playing in the upper British class. When I finished this novel, I just sat for five minutes, thinking of where this story had taken me in past week. By Alan Hollinghurst. In a perverse delectation of delay I waited until the US release of, Last week I read Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child. Divided into five sections, Alan Hollinghurst’s narrative each time focuses on a different generation. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. The Stranger’s Child is a comedy of manners, exuberantly funny, as well as a literary mystery, filled with elegant and erudite tips of the author’s hat to other writers—not just Tennyson, [Rupert] Brooke, but E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley and many more. To the Editors:. In fastidious - if occasionally fussy - prose Hollinghurst has fashioned his own kind of family saga - part Evelyn Waugh, part EM Forster, part Mary Wesley. The Stranger's Child. Knopf, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-307-27276-8. It rescued me from lapsing into a boredom induced coma while sitting in a hilux in a field in the middle of the Cheshire countryside. “The Booker Prize-winning author’s new novel covers a century and traces a love triangle torn from the pages of, "'With The Stranger's Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular' Sunday Times 'I would compare the novel to Middlemarch... a remarkable, unmissable achievement' Independent 'Magnificent... universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year' Philip Hensher" Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. To see what your friends thought of this book, [ The two stars here rates my enjoyment level of this book rather than my valuation of the writing, which I'd give a four, and Hollinghurst's perceptive understandings of human foible and social identity. My enjoyment of the first two sections of this novel was tinged by the suspicion that I was merely indulging in some Merchant Ivory–caliber WWI-era nostalgia—a suspicion perhaps fed by my having read, When I finished this novel, I just sat for five minutes, thinking of where this story had taken me in past week. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy, perplexed by the sudden appearances and disappearances of characters into thin air, exclaims (I paraphrase): "Gosh. And the one character whose memory was threaded through the book became someone else from the real man. The Stranger's Child is a remarkable, unmissable achievement, written with the calm authority of an author who could turn his literary gifts to just about anything. We suddenly encounter a cast of different characters and POVs, and it's not until several pages later we realize what that has to do with Daphne's, our main character's, story. However, with the second book it took considerably longer. I found myself doing a lot of skimming without really missing much of the story line. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2020. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published 'The Stranger's Child' is not an easy read. To me, that particular genre has gotten old after Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. Buy The Stranger's Child Main Market by Alan Hollinghurst (ISBN: 9780330483247) from Amazon's Book Store. So my five-star rating is solely for his penmanship (though he doesn't employ synonyms for the word "said". An Ottawa journalist, author and writer, I have contributed to what is now known as Daily Xtra since 1999. I've always been hesitant of contemporary literature for this exact reason: it's too derivative. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The Stranger's Child Alan HollinghurstPicador, 576pp, £20If 2004 was the "Year of Henry James", as David Lodge has argued, 2011 is shaping up to be the Year of Henry James's Friends. Perhaps my biggest issue with this novel is that I did enjoy it...when Forster wrote it nearly a century ago in "Maurice" and then when Waugh wrote it in "Brideshead". Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Very clever. Award winner. A relationship that was forecasted by the relation between the poet and his lover. $32. Yet the precision is in service to his storytelling and never overwhelms it. Start by marking “The Stranger's Child” as Want to Read: Error rating book. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George’s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact. This was a cracking good read to start the new year with. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. What are some of its funniest moments and most amusing observations? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. “The Stranger’s Child,” Alan Hollinghurst’s fifth novel, opens on a scene in Harrow and Wealdstone, a suburb north of London chosen by the author … Starts slow, gets more promising in the middle, but then disappointing. I perfectly understand the prize nominations and love of his work expressed widely on this site, but at the same time I was underwhelmed by the novel as a whole. [s], The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst. The Stranger's Child, then, is a departure: while homosexuality and gay relationships are a strong theme throughout the book, it is a family saga spanning almost a hundred years - stretching from the eve of the First World War to the present day - and is the first Hollinghurst novel to feature major female characters. Lives tangle and untangle in a literate, literary mystery at the heart of World War I … But, at the end of the 564 pages, I feel let down by weak story telling carefully hidden by lyrical writing, beautiful settings and a probing look at changes in British society over the last century. Throughout the twentieth century people start to take an interest in the poet, and even a biography is being set up. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger’s Child is Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. edition (June 27, 2011). In one sense, The Stranger's Child is about trying to capture the past, with the story of a poet and his relationships woven into the different strands of the book. I’d instead argue that “the stranger’s child” is the impact Cecil Valance left on each character’s life. There was a problem loading your book clubs. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Seven years later The Stranger’s Child made the Man Booker long list and then fell out of contention, which led to bitter complaints from those critics who believe that Hollinghurst is Britain’s greatest living writer. At first the stories seem disparate, but eventually the connections become clear. It is also elegiac about England where the present allows freedoms undreamed of in the past and yet beauty is destroyed at the same time. This was long-listed for the 2011 Booker Prize, and why it didn’t get on the short list and then win, I won’t know. by Alan Hollinghurst. It started out as some sort of Wuthering Heights spin-off, but with a gay twist to it. In every phrase he finds the perfect word. For that I am eternally grateful. Added to this is an exploration of the persistence of time and the transience of human memory. Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2012. Please try again. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2019. My first byline (or perhaps, more aptly, bi-line) was a story about a gay volleyball league in Cornwall. I loved this, everything about this. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. This leaves much to the reader's imagination and draws you into the tale. The relationships between the characters start to echo the relationships between the nineteenth century characters at the beginning of the novel. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. However, I recall well the attention to detail and elegance of prose associated with the author's style in the first book. The repetition of "he said/she said" dialogue tags are hard to ignore). Please try again. ©2011 Alan Hollinghurst (P)2011 Random House More from the same The same friend who encouraged me to read Hollinghusrt's 'The Line of Beauty' also referred me to this latest effort 'The Stranger's Child'. Alfred A Knopf Canada. The Stranger’s Child revisits some of Hollinghurst’s enduring concerns: architecture and the social meaning of houses and buildings; the pastoral tradition and the relationship between city and country; and, most obviously, gay life and the construction of gay identity. It's beautifully written, filled with wonderful little observations about the way people speak and comport themselves; unfortunately, the writing is not paired with a sufficiently interesting story. Now Alan … Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts - haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism - The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. Well, this is what you won't do: panic. Menu Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child (2011) 06 July 2011 on Books, poetry, Hollinghurst, gay, Tennyson, Waugh, class. The only other Alan Hollinghurst book I've read is the beautiful but disturbing Booker Prize winner. Hollinghurst's writing is so precise. While I was quick to deliver a three-star rating to this novel, I could consider dropping another star. While I was quick to deliver a three-star rating to this novel, I could consider dropping another star. The whole novel just didn't appeal to me. Please try your request again later. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. And each part is sealed with a kiss.” His understanding of the emotional landscape is complete. Try again. The Stranger’s Child doesn’t deal with literal children per se, although of course generational difference is definitely one of its key themes. Set in Thatcher’s 1980’s Britain it courted mild controversy with its depictions of cocaine abuse and graphic gay sex. The Stranger’s Child In the late summer of 1913 the young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at ‘Two Acres’, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle, and of his sister, Daphne. A worthy but at times stodgy read from Hollinghurst, but much, much better than The Line of Beauty. What will you do when it's your turn to pick your book club's next read? Rich with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built and broken. This eBook edition includes a … Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2018. Snoresville. Unfortunately, despite having read 53% of this immensely overlong tome, I’m not at all sure if it’s about anything much at all. Grand British country house with driveway on front cover. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. People come and go so quickly here!" And it has ended at the top of my 2011 Best Of list just in the nick of time! In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. As should be clear by now, The Stranger's Child is a profoundly nostalgic book, in the strict Greek sense of "homesickness": it longs to go home to … Now that Hollinghurst is in his mid 60s he appears to be writing for a wider audience. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Romantic life tale Read 3-4 years ago. Early 20th century based novel. Both families were in the British upper class, with the Vances a bit higher, having a … The last section was intended to show the reader what Cecil's reputation had ultimately come to look like, to give us a final update on the fortunes o. Last week I read Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child. You ain't seen nothing yet. BUY NOW FROM. It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic. Much of the turn-of-the-century English literature aesthetic over saturates this novel, and while I do very much enjoy that setting. The only negative thing to say is about the cover - I really don't like it. Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2012. In truth, the lyrical beauty of his flawless writing almost negates the need for a story. The Stranger's Child is, among many other things, a wonderfully comic novel. --This text refers to an alternate, Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels. Perhaps my biggest issue with this novel is that I did enjoy it...when Forster wrote it nearly a century ago in "Maurice" and then when Waugh wrote it in "Brideshead". Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. KIRKUS REVIEW. One of the lovers heroically dies in war, and becomes a well-known poet. This is a wonderful story, the best of Hollinghurst's books in my view. OTHER BOOKS. Its attention to detail, while important stylistically, tends to become first a bit ponderous, then, boring. Hollinghurst is fifty and he's still writing about boys and their capacity for stratospheric ejaculation. I read the book several times and enjoyed it better each time. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. In his review of Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel The Stranger’s Child [NYR, November 10], Daniel Mendelsohn writes as follows:. Please try again. Dorothy, honey, wait until you read "The Stranger's Child." To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Now I don't read Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst for his storytelling. ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. And it has ended at the top of my 2011 Best Of list just in the. And boy, what an ordeal this has been. It is seven years since Alan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Booker prize for The Line of Beauty, his Jamesian account of an eighties arriviste moving in high Tory circles. A fair amount of time passed between reading each book. “There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had”, “she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.”, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (2013), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), Galaxy National Book Award for Waterstone's UK Author of the Year (2011), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2013), See 1 question about The Stranger's Child…, Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books, Daniel Mendelsohn's review of the novel in the NYRB, SOLVED. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Best of all, his male characters aren't spending most of the novel having sex with each other at the drop of a hat. Like 'The Line of Beauty', it took me a while to get into the rhythm of the narrative of 'The Stranger's Child'. Throughout the twentieth century people start to take an interest in the poet, and even a biography is being set up. Once again his writing exhibits all the heightened sensory awareness and self-conscious eroticism of an extended seduction. This tells a riveting and complex saga with profound insight, plenty of intrigue and dashes of wit. This is a novel of superb observation, of how the past is interpreted across generations. I've always been hesitant of contemporary literature for this exact reason: it's too derivative. Witty, nuanced and observant work from a great wrtier working at the height of his powers. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The rel. (But I may, next up is the winner, “The Sense of a Ending.”) Hollinghurst has won the award before, but his latest effort is an incredible story of love, loyalty, and the art of poetry (and much, much more). What was I doing sitting in a field in such an environmentally unfriendly vehicle? (Hey don't diss the hilux, that car is my baby). Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others - especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. But appearances are deceiving, because Hollinghurst has made a pretty ingenious piece of work with alternating time periods, different storytelling perspectives and several layers of meaning. Refresh and try again. The Stranger’s Child moves from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty first. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. His specialty is human motivations and he seems to live inside each character equally, whether they are male, female, old, young, straight, gay. I'd give those a six. And although that might have its merits, it just didn't appeal to me. Why not? Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The sense of the ever-present collision between past and present is perhaps, the over-riding message to take from the story, along with the obsession we sometimes have to nail down events that are fleeting in nature. (But I may, next up is the winner, “The Sense of a Ending.”) Hollinghurst has won the award before, but his latest effort is an incredible story of love, loyalty, and the art of poetry (and much, much more). The rest of the story is more or less a quest of remembering the dead poet. In The Stranger’s Child, the Jewishness of the press photographer Jerry Goldblatt (in the section of the book set in 1926) is deployed precisely to illustrate the prejudicial attitudes of Dudley Valance, who speaks to him “in a harsh tone” and repeats his name in a way that strikes Dudley’s wife Daphne (through whose eyes this chapter is seen) as pointedly unpleasant. I made it to the end with a lot of page skimming. The rest of the story is more or less a quest of remembering the dead poet. So, with some good will, you might read the novel as an alternative, gay, history of England. This was a really interesting story because it deals with the same woman through different periods of her life. One section can be about her adulthood, but then suddenly we skip to her in her 60s. 1 She'd been lying in … One of the lovers heroically dies in war, and becomes a well-known poet. THE STRANGER'S CHILD. The Stranger’s Child is an elegant, seductive and enjoyable to read. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Picador; Main Market Ed. From the first dozen pages, even the first few sentences, I was drawn into a love affair with the writing of this book. The overall message could easily have been conveyed in two thirds of the words. July 4th 2011 December 11, 2011. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. Share. Folding Star; The Swimming-Pool Library; The interesting thing lies in the way that we don't recognize what is going on during those skips. And boy, what an ordeal this has been. Welcome back. After the archetypal. Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism— The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. 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