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The Stranger's Child is the fifth novel by Alan Hollinghurst, first published in June 2011. The book tells the story of a minor poet, Cecil Valance, who is killed in the First World War. In 1913, he visits a Cambridge friend, George Sawle, at the latter's home in Stanmore, Middlesex.
Jun 27, 2011 · The Stranger's Child. Alan Hollinghurst. 3.32. 11,361 ratings1,468 reviews. From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
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The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterful novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.
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The Stranger’s Child is by turns a gripping literary mystery, an absorbing social study of some pivotal moments in history, and a sensuous and beautiful exploration of the secret passions that determine our lives.
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Dec 17, 2011 · Hollinghurst’s latest, The Stranger’s Child, turns around a man named Cecil Valance, an Edwardian name recalling A Room with a View ’s unflecked — unfleckable? — Cecil Vyse. But like The Swimming-Pool ’s Archibalds, its Lionels, its Ernests, Cecil is no staid boy.
English. 651 pages (large print) ; 25 cm. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle.
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Oct 11, 2011 · 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. Read more.
