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Literature & Fiction

The Stranger's Child

The Stranger's Child

From the Man Booker Prizeâ€“winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmateâ€”a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valanceâ€”to his familyâ€™s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphneâ€™s autograph album will change their and their familiesâ€™ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buriedâ€”until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.

Rich with Hollinghurstâ€™s signature giftsâ€”haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricismâ€”The Strangerâ€™s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-10-11
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307272768

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