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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 30/09/2010
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ISBN: 9781409002147
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Length: 272 Pages
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RRP: £9.98
Discover this ‘sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue’ (Telegraph) from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty.
The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin; Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and the shy Alex, who is Justin's ex-boyfriend.
As each in turn falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life. At once lyrical, sceptical and romantic, The Spell confirms Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain's most important novelists.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 30/09/2010
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ISBN: 9781409002147
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Length: 272 Pages
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RRP: £9.98
Reviews
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"The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting...brilliant imagery...and hilarious cross-purpose jokes... Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic"
Independent
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"A masterpiece of sustained literary titillation"
The Times
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"Love, lust and loss among a group of middle-class gay Englishmen... Young and old, the town and the country, the wild and respectable: Holinghurst explores each of these uneasy conflicts with wit, generosity and sharply observed comedy"
Mail on Sunday
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"A bewitchingly beautiful tale... confirms his pre-eminence among the prose writers of his generation"
Daily Telegraph
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"Comic fantasy is grounded in a wealth of sharp observation and psychological insight. Hollinghurst has lost none of his authority"
Evening Standard
