The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst [244]
Why do you think Hollinghurst ends the novel with Rob’s unsuccessful attempt to recover Cecil’s letters to Hewitt before they go up in smoke? Is this conclusion satisfying, or appropriately open-ended?
Suggested Further Reading
A. S. Byatt, Possession; Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong; Ford Maddox Ford, Parade’s End; E. M. Forster, Maurice; Ian McEwan, Atonement; Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day; Henry James, The Aspern Papers; Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALAN HOLLINGHURST is the author of The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in London.
ALSO BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST
The Line of Beauty
The Spell
The Folding Star
The Swimming-Pool Library