Our Evenings: A Novel

ISBN: 0593243064

Author: Hollinghurst, Alan

Condition: New

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, an engrossing tale of one mans personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language (The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice)The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.-The GuardianA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Town & Country, Slate, Good Housekeeping, Financial Times, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, Parade, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Kirkus ReviewsDid I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though Id lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man hes never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.Alan Hollinghursts new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on-through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security.From one of our most gifted writers (The Boston Globe), Our Evenings sweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.