PRE-ORDER: Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst (HC)

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence.

As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.

Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.

REVIEWS

"Our Evenings is marked by a sharp eye, a tender sensibility, and an unflagging wit. I never wanted it to end." - Emma Donoghue

"Moments of extraordinary beauty and set pieces as powerful as anything Hollinghurst has written." ― The New Yorker

"Alan Hollinghurst just can’t write a sentence that isn’t beautiful. Am still haunted by the atmospherically glimmering melancholy and elegant wit of Our Evenings, long after finishing it." ― Nigella Lawson

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 978-1447208235
Pages: 496