The Folding Star
Edward Manners - thirty-three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Year
- 1994
- ISBN-13
- 9788433908377
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Obsessive loveHomosexuality and desireArt and history
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial PrizeWonMajor(1994)
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1994)
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