http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hollinghurst
You may not know him by his books, but if you're a UKer, his book 'Line Of Beauty' (which won the Booker prize) was adapted into a drama last year by the BBC.
Anyway, so far I've read 'The Spell' and 'The Folding Star'. The Folding Star is about a middle aged teacher and his obsession of his 17 year old student Luc. A
very good book!
I'm reading 'The Swimming Pool Library' now- his first (and arguably best) novel.
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A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity
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Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything. it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich who is searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
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Has anyone read any AH? I'm loving him so far, it's a shame he's only made 4 novels, really.
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