Summary
‘A sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue… stylish, original, bizarrely beautiful’ - Francis Wyndham, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
Discover this ‘sparkling celebration of sexual intrigue’ (Telegraph) from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty.
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;…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099276944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099276941 |
| Author: | Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting…brilliant imagery…and hilarious cross-purpose jokes… Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic
“The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting…brilliant imagery…and hilarious cross-purpose jokes… Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic” Independent “A masterpiece of sustained literary titillation” The Times “Love, lust and loss among a group of middle-class gay Englishmen… Young and old, the town and the country, the wild and respectable: Holinghurst explores each of these uneasy conflicts with wit, generosity and sharply observed comedy” Mail on Sunday “A bewitchingly beautiful tale… confirms his pre-eminence among the prose writers of his generation” Daily Telegraph “Comic fantasy is grounded in a wealth of sharp observation and psychological insight. Hollinghurst has lost none of his authority” Evening Standard
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels:
- The Swimming-Pool Library
- The Folding Star
- The Spell
- The Line of Beauty
- The Stranger’s Child
- The Sparsholt Affair
- Our Evenings
He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In 2025, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and knighted for services to literature. He lives in London.
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