The Stranger's Child
The Stranger’s Child, Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel in seven years, is a sprawling, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that creates a myth—and a family mystery—across generations.
In 1913, George Sawle brings the charismatic and unusually handsome Cecil Valance to his family’s modest home outside London for a summer weekend. George is totally enthralled by his Cambridge schoolmate, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by both Cecil and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he’s heir to.
What Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will be recited by every schoolchild in England.
Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with the author’s wicked sense of humor, haunting sensuality and exquisite lyricism, The Stranger’s Child is a true tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, and about the many ways the heart creates its own history.
Hardcover : 448 pages
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Random House ( October 11, 2011 )
Item #: 13-407110
ISBN: 9780307272768
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 1.12inches
Product Weight: 17.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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