Book description
The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the
interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late
forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his
younger lover, Justin; Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile
beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and the shy Alex, who is
Justin's ex-boyfriend.
As each in turn falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country
living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing
imperatives of modern gay life. At once lyrical, sceptical and
romantic, The Spell confirms Alan Hollinghurst as one of
Britain's most important novelists.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty.
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the
most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s,
The
Swimming-Pool Library
(1988), and was selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists
1993. His second novel,
The Folding Star
, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the
1994 Booker Prize and
The Line of Beauty
won the Booker Prize in 2004.
