The Folding Star
Synopsis
Edward Manners is 32 years old, gay, and disillusioned with his life in England. He arrives in an ancient Flemish city to work as a language tutor, also hoping to get some writing done. There, he becomes obsessed with one of his students, a 17-year-old boy named Luc Altidore. Their relationship quickly becomes a highly erotic one, but Luc abruptly disappears.
Author Biography
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire. He studied and then taught English at Oxford. His previous novels are The Swimming-Pool Library (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and The Spell. For several years he was the Deputy Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and was one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 1993. Alan Hollinghurst lives in London. The Line of Beauty, which won The Man Booker Prize in 2004, was adapted into a three part television series by the BBC and aired on BBC2 in May 2006.
