The Spell

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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Brand
Penguin
Color
Pink
PartNumber
140286373
ISBN
9780140286373
EAN
9780140286373
UnitValue
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Penguin Publishing Group
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ABIS_BOOK
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140286373
ISBN-13
9780140286373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1703760

Product Key Features

Book Title
Spell
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Erotica / General, Romance / Contemporary, Lgbt / Gay, Literary
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Author
Alan Hollinghurst
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting...brilliant imagery...and hilarious cross-purpose jokes... Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic Independent (London) A masterpiece of sustained literary titillation The Times (London) Love, lust and loss among a group of middle-class gay Englishmen... Young and old, the town and the country, the wild and respectable: Holinghurst explores each of these uneasy conflicts with wit, generosity and sharply observed comedy Mail on Sunday (London) A bewitchingly beautiful tale... confirms his pre-eminence among the prose writers of his generation Daily Telegraph (Lonon) Comic fantasy is grounded in a wealth of sharp observation and psychological insight. Hollinghurst has lost none of his authority Evening Standard (London) "This colorful and often breathtakingly eloquent novel follows the lives of four gay men in the late '90s." -- Publishers Weekly "...never less than honest and realistic..." - - Kirkus Reviews
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old son Danny; and Justin's former boyfriend Alex, whose life is unexpectedly transformed by a night of house music and a tab of ecstasy.As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love, and of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life: the hunger for contact and the fear of commitment, the need for permanence and the continual disruptions of sex. Ultimately, The Spell details the restlessness of every human heart., "The "spell" of the title is both the power of drugs, at the heart of the book, and the "sex-magic" that variously possesses - but then deserts - each of its main characters." -- The Guardian Discover this 'sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue' ( Telegraph, London ) from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty and Our Evenings. The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin; Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and the shy Alex, who is Justin's ex-boyfriend. As each in turn falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life. At once lyrical, sceptical and romantic, The Spell confirms Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain's most important novelists.

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