ALAN HOLLINGHURST

Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst will be in conversation with Mark Chutter.

Date: Wednesday 16th October 2024
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: DORFORD CENTRE

Dark, luminous, poignant 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. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from the finest writer of our age.

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; but it is also the story of his widowed mother, whose life takes a new turn after her son leaves.

Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels.

This event is part of the 10th DORCHESTER LITERARY FESTIVAL 2024 running from Saturday 12th to Saturday 19th October 2024