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Alan Hollinghurst
Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst
Our Evenings

2025 | Nakladatelství Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.

A 'Book of the Year' for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the IFeatured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime''The best novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It's funny but desperately moving too' -… The Sunday TimesAlan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles' envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys' careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win's life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.Our Evenings entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w/b 07-10-24. A 'Book of the Year' for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the IFeatured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime''The b…est novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It's funny but desperately moving too' - The Sunday TimesAlan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles' envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys' careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win's life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.Our Evenings entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w/b 07-10-24.

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O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	496
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1447208242
ISBN:	9781447208242
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	7. 8. 2025 0:34
Číslo položky:	1334063

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst je anglický spisovatel, básník a překladatel. Za svou literární činnost získal mnoho ocenění, včetně Somerset Maugham Award z roku 1989, James Tait Black Memorial Prize z roku 1999 a Man Bookerovy ceny z roku 2004. Narodil se jako jedináček do rodiny bankovního manažera Jamese Hollinghursta a jeho ženy Elisabeth. Navštěvoval Canford School v Dorsetu. Studoval angličtinu na Magdalen College v Oxfordu, kde v roce 1975 získal bakalářský a v roce 1979 magisterský titul. Napsal dizertační práci ohledně děl tří homosexuálních spisovatelů, Ronalda Firbanka, Edwarda Morgana Forstera a Leslieho Polese Hartleyho. Během studií na Oxfordu bydlel s básníkem Andrewem Motionem a v roce 1994 byl oceněn cenou Newdigate Prize za poezii. Na konci sedmdesátých let se stal odborným asistentem na Magdalen College a poté na Somerville College a Corpus Christi College v Oxfordu. V roce 1981 se stal asistentem na University College v Londýně a o rok později začal působit v novinách The Times Literary Supplement, kde v letech 1985 až 1990 působil jako zástupce šéfredaktora. Hollinghurst je homosexuální orientace. Žije samotářsky, což v roce 2011 okomentoval slovy: „Není vůbec snadné se mnou žít. Přeji si, abych mohl začlenit psaní do obyčejného společenského života, ale nezdá se, že bych toho byl schopen. Byl jsem toho schopen, když jsem začínal . Předpokládám, že jsem tehdy měl více energie. Nyní se již musím stranit společnosti po delší dobu.“ V roce 2004 získal Man Bookerovu cenu za svůj román Linie krásy. Jeho další román, Cizí dítě, se dostal do užší nominace na Man Bookerovu cenu v roce 2011. V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Alan Hollinghurst na anglické Wikipedii.

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