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EPISODE · Nov 6, 2024 · 35 MIN

Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze

from Bookends with Mattea Roach

When Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004, it was the first time a book about the gay experience won the award. Now his newest novel, Our Evenings, puts a biracial boy who’s discovering queer culture for the first time at the front and centre. Alan and Mattea Roach discuss how growing up gay in Britain inspires his writing.

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