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The Folding Star

By: Alan Hollinghurst
Narrated by: Samuel West
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Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.

'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery . . . The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' – Evening Standard

Edward Manners – thirty three and disaffected – escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.

'As is typical of the best classics, he has fashioned a universal tale of sexual obsession, love and death out of a particular life' – Marie Claire

Accolades & Awards

Lambda Literary Award
1994
Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Lambda Literary Award Literary Fiction
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I bought the wrong book and couldn’t return it. My bad. Sorry. Love Alan usually.

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