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Our evenings : a novel / Alan Hollinghurst.

Hollinghurst, Alan, (author.).

Summary:

"Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I'd lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice. Dave Win, the son of a British dressmaker and a Burmese man he's never met, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities lie before Dave, even as he is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates, above all that of Giles Hadlow, whose worldly parents sponsored the scholarship and who find in Dave someone they can more easily nurture than their brutish son. Our Evenings follows Dave from the 1960s on--through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security. Moving in and out of Dave's orbit are the Hadlows. Estranged from his parents, who remain close to Dave, Giles directs his privilege into a career as a powerful right-wing politician, whose reactionary vision for England pokes perilous holes in Dave's stability. And as the novel accelerates towards the present day, the two men's lives and values will finally collide in a cruel shock of violence."-- Amazon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781039000452
  • Physical Description: 487 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2024]
Subject: Gay men > Fiction.
Boarding schools > England > Fiction.
Sexual minority culture > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Social classes > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Queer fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 1 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.

Holds

  • 3 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Elkford Public Library FC HOL (Text) 35170000492033 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -


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