Alan Hollinghurst | Our Evenings
Sun 24 Nov 2024 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Join us in welcoming Booker Prize winner and celebrated novelist Alan Hollinghurst to Cambridge with his latest book, Our Evenings: 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.
Our Evenings unfolds over half a century, following Dave Win’s account of his life as a boarding school scholar, his first love affairs, his experiences with an experimental theatre company, and a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security. However, the book also very movingly captures the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home.
Both dark and luminous, deeply affecting and wickedly funny, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience.
In conversation with literary journalist and broadcaster Alex Clark.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of six previous novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty (winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize), The Stranger’s Child and The Sparsholt Affair. He lives in London.
Chair Biography
Alex Clark is a broadcaster and journalist, who writes for many publications including the Guardian, the Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a co-host on the Graham Norton Book Club for Audible and hosts the TLS podcast. She is a professional chairperson and appears all over the UK at Cheltenham, Hay and the Southbank Centre. Alex is a festival honorary patron.
