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In self-imposed exile in an ancient Flemish city, an embittered 33-year-old language tutor, Edward Manners, falls in love with his alluring 17-year-old pupil, Luc Altidore. As Edward pursues the elusive object of his infatuation--and plunges into affairs with two other men--this book interweaves pasContinue
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Lost Youth
Alan Hollinghurst is better at bees than Oscar Wilde. On the opening page of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde has them ‘shouldering their way through the long un-mown grass’. A bee must never be allowed to ‘shoulder’. Later that afternoon, Dorian Gr ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10: 0517172453
- ISBN-13: 9780517172452
- Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
- Pub date: Oct 02, 1996
- Also available as: Paperback and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780517172452 | Hardcover | $4.99 | -- | The Book Depository |
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