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Were left with a sensational hole at the center of a deviously anti-sensational novel.
Hollinghurst has written six novels over 30 years and won the Booker Prize in 2004 forThe Line of Beauty.
The books five sections take place in 1940, 1966, 1973, 1995, and 2012.
Hes earnest and unsophisticated but not quite innocent.
In a transaction thats never spoken of as such, David sleeps with Evert.
This is the first of several minor Sparsholt affairs that glow around the obscured scandal of the novels title.
The succeeding sections are told in the third person and cleave mostly to Davids son Johnnys point of view.
Their mutual attraction of the previous summer have been eclipsed by Bastiens new interest in girls.
There are funerals and wakes and many portrait sittings.
Hollinghurst manages a time-lapse impressionist portrait of London bohemian life.
