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* 2025 Lammy Award Finalist* 'One of the most exciting new novels' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Very funny... Its deeply felt pages flew by' GUARDIAN 'Sexy, compassionate, uncommonly imaginative: I've never read anything quite like it' Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends London, 2014. Hal Lancaster - twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card - is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness. When a grouse shooting accident - funny in retrospect - makes a romance out of Hal's rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, a life of his own. But his father Henry is an Englishman: he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family's past. 'Deeply enjoyable' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea 'Thrillingly imaginative' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time
| EAN: | 9781529931815 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 15.05.2025 |
| Autoren: | Bratton, Allen |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 384 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Gay |
| Keyword: | books bestsellers; best sellers; lgbtq; gay fiction english; booker prize; booker prize winners; new fiction; latest novels; top 10 books; coming of age; london; high society; literary fiction; literary; contemporary fiction; william shakespeare; queer; lgbt; gay; gay love; gay novels; best fiction; best books; best books 2023; good books; good book; song of achilles; madeleine miller; donna tartt; shuggie bain; young mungo; line of beauty; succession; the crown; edward st aubyn; patrick melrose novels; alan hollinghurst; brandon taylor; bryan washington; douglas stuart |
| Fachschema: | London / Roman, Erzählung~Schwul / Roman, Erzählung~Shakespeare, William |
| Fachkategorie: | Belletristik: Besonderheiten |
| Interesse Alter: | Bezug zu höheren sozioökonomische Gruppe / Status~Bezug zu Christen und christlichen Gruppen~Bezug zu Schwulen~Bezug zu Shakespeare |
| Imprint-Titels: | Vintage Books |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 129 mm |