Our Evenings
A Novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
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Pub Date Oct 08 2024 | Archive Date Oct 07 2024
Random House Publishing Group - Random House | Random House
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Description
“Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality, and origins.”—Tash Aw, author of Five Star Billionaire
Did 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 I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.
Dave Win, the son of a a Burmese man he’s 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 Hollinghurst’s 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.
Advance Praise
“Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality, and origins in a genteel English Home Counties setting. It is the story of a country undergoing great change, even if its people aren’t aware of it—the novel moves through time so beautifully that I felt such a sense of loss at the end.”—Tash Aw
Praise for Alan Hollinghurst
“Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today.”—The Guardian
“Hollinghurst knows that the present is never as enlightened as it likes to think it is, nor the past quite as backward. . . . [His genius] has been to speak in a voice steeped in English heritage about a subculture that England’s rigid and stratified society long refused to acknowledge, let alone accept.”—Giles Harvey, The New York Times
“[Hollinghurst has] a truly Jamesian fineness of perception. . . . [He is] one of the best novelists at work today.”—The Wall Street Journal
“One can’t get enough of Hollinghurst’s sentences.”—The Washington Post
“One of our most gifted writers.”—The Boston Globe
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780593243060 |
| PRICE | $30.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 496 |
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