The Folding Star

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Of specific Gay interest

Published on 6 April 1995 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages
198 x 131 x 26mm | 300g

'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening StandardEdward 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.

‘A generous pinch of true wit’ Sunday Times