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it is one of the greatest recent tragedies that several mainstream publishers turned down the chance to publish this novel stateside because it was "too gay." this is a novel about how the term "sexual politics" is really a redundancy; in the early eighties in london, sex and politics were treated with the same combination of insouciance, promiscuity, and ruthlessness. the book is a tad overlong, but that is a small price to pay for the richness of hollinghurst's sentences, which are on a par wi
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An award-winning novel, and deservedly so. The language is amazing, and so are the observations about sex, class, and excess in Thatcher's England. Nick Guest, the narrator and center (an aesthetic if amoral one) of the book is drawn into the world of the 1%. With some sad if not wholly unpredictable consequences. The satire of the book is sometimes savage, but the writing sometimes, but only sometimes, softens the cruelty.
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I've had this on my shelf for eons, and recently decided to pull it off and read it, and now I'm wondering what took me so long! Hollinghurst's unique style takes a little while to get into, but once you do it draws you on and further into the world he portrays. This book was a treat, and I didn't want it to end.
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A second time reading this book (which I almost never do) made all the more fun since I now live in London and am familiar with many of the geographic references. Loved the intersection of class, race, sex, family, and politics.
(My reading group's June 2006 book selection.)
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