by Alan Hollinghurst (Author)
Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Apr 1995
ISBN 10: 0099476916
ISBN 13: 9780099476917
Book Overview: 'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening Standard
Prizes: Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1994 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 1994. Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1994.