By Alan Hollinghurst
From the fellow Booker Prize–winning writer of The Line of Beauty: a powerful, century-spanning saga a few love triangle that spawns a delusion, and a kinfolk secret, throughout generations.
within the overdue summer time of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a good-looking, aristocratic younger poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest domestic outdoors London for the weekend. George is enthralled via Cecil, and shortly his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is both besotted by means of him and the tales he tells approximately Corley courtroom, the rustic property he's inheritor to. yet what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will swap their and their families’ lives endlessly: a poem that, after Cecil is killed within the nice battle and his attractiveness burnished, becomes a touchstone for a iteration, a piece recited through each schoolchild in England. through the years, a sad love tale is spun, while different secrets and techniques lie buried—until, many years later, an formidable biographer threatens to unearth them.
wealthy with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, scrumptious wit and beautiful lyricism—The Stranger’s Child is a travel de strength: a masterly novel in regards to the lingering strength of hope, how the center creates its personal background, and the way legends are made.
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Cannae stick a cunt thit rips oaf his mates, Lenny snarled. – Whin ye think aboot it though, it's Granty's poppy. He kin spend it oan whit he likes, Jackie said. They looked at him with bemused belligerence. Eventually Lenny spoke. – Away ye fuckin go. – In a wey though, the cunt won it fair n square. Ah ken what we agreed. Build up a big kitty wi the club money tae add a bit ay spice tae the caird games. Then divvi up. Ah ken aw that. Aw ah'm sayin is thit in the eyes ay the law. . Jackie explained his position.
Ah telt ye, ah've goat tae fuckin nash. Me n Lexo pulled a bit ay business oaf. Ah'm sayin nae mair oan the fuckin subject, but it's best ah disappear fir a couple ay weeks. Any polis cunts come tae the door, yuv no seen us fir yonks. Ye think ah'm oan the fuckin rigs, right. Yuv no seen us, mind. – But whair ur ye gaun Frank? Whair ur ye fuckin well gaun? – That's fir me tae ken n you tae find oot. What ye dinnae fuckin well ken they cannae fuckin well beat oot ay ye, ah sais. Then the fuckin boot gits up n starts fuckin screamin it us, saying thit ah cannae jist fuckin go like that.
Cunts that are intae baseball–batting every fucker that's different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It's nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. ah don't hate the English. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation.