Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in 1975; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (1979). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, the year before Motion.
In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen, and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London. In 1997, he went on an Asia book tour in Singapore.
In 1981 he joined The Times Literary Supplement and was the paper's deputy editor from 1982 to 1995.
He lives in London.
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.
长得越大,越不容易入心。 从16岁到24岁,好像整个审美观都没有长进。先是日本,后是英国。而这两者其实也没有本质的差别,同是岛国,同闷骚,同不留出口。 最近看毕的《never let me go》,不甘心而看了第二遍,仍然泪流不止,因它设定太过狡诈,根本没有退路可言;这同我看...
A bit dry for my taste.
评分好虐的一本书。泪目。555
评分与 旧地重游 恰恰相反,这本书表面上描写的是snobbism,实际上却刻画的是一个时代。一般来说对小说都会让我有很深的代入感的,但因为对英语掌握不足,读这本小说时我没有,不过里面许多环境描写直入人心。因为这本书主要是在地铁上看装高贵冷艳用的,所以读了整整一年......
评分A bit dry for my taste.
评分cultural barrier太高 基本从头到尾读得不得其意。作者更在意以小见大地对那个时代进行剖析 人物刻画和剧情推动真是缥缈啊
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