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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 06/04/1995
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ISBN: 9780099476917
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Length: 432 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
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Weight: 298g
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RRP: £9.99
'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.
‘A generous pinch of true wit’ Sunday Times
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 06/04/1995
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ISBN: 9780099476917
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Length: 432 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
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Weight: 298g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"'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
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"'Even in its sexiest moments, it never loses its intellectual poise. Dry witticisms intersperse sweaty couplings...The Folding Star is a novel of considerable breadth.What gives it its depth is the candour, wit, sensuous immediacy and melancholy intelligence applied to it'"
Peter Kemp, Times Literary Supplement
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"'Few writers' prose can throw a party as easily as retire to the library as Hollinghurst's...[He ] is on as fine a form in this novel as his first'"
Tom Shone, Spectator
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"'Grand 19th-century fin-de-siècle lusciousness, a seamy 20th-century carnality and a generous pinch of true wit'"
Sunday Times
