Our Evenings
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Our Evenings
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Narrated by:
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Prasanna Puwanarajah
About this listen
Alan 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 Dave Win’s own account of his 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.
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- finnea
- 17-10-2024
Sublime...
A very beautiful novel. i loved living with these characters for 16 hours. i am totally done in by the end.
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- busby
- 13-12-2024
The wood from the twees
Despite the archness it’s a fine novel, beautifully read. The longer it goes the better it is. Hollinghurst is a master but not at his inestimable best. Still, it has many incisive charms.
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- Brett
- 26-11-2024
Another stunning tale from the master
Great performance and a wonderful story. This book weaves through the times and life of our protagonist and warns of a bleak future for us all. Uplifting and worrying in parts it’s unmissable.
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