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In 1940, the handsome, athletic, and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. Spanning three generations, The Sparsholt Affair plumbs the ways the friendship between these two men will influence their lives—and the lives of others’—for decades to come. Richly observed and emotionally charged, this is a dazzling novel of fathers and sons, of family and legacy, and of the longing for permanence amid life’s inevitable transience.

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Alan Hollinghurst’s novel THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR covers three generations of fiends who meet at Oxford in 1940. It ends in the present day in a world of i-phones, body tattoos, same-sex marriage, children from sperm donors, etc. parents, etc. These characters go to war, marry, divorce, remarry, have children; and some of them die.At the heart of this long sprawling novel (454 pages) is David Sparsholt, a handsome, athlete, with whom everyone is taken when he arrives at Oxford in October, 1940. He of course is the Sparsholt in the title of the book. The Sparsholt affair crops up again and again and takes on different meanings throughout the novel. One of the things so fascinating about the book is that for the most part we see David through the eyes of other characters: Freddie Green, Evert Dax, Johnny et al.The book is a mirror of the changing attitudes of the British public toward the LGBT community in the past 75 years. Although we read page after page filled with eroticism, the sex is always subtle. The entire second section of the novel “The Lookout” is filled with a young man’s longing in beautifully understated language. Some examples from the first two sections: “There was a careless glimpse of his sex in the open slit of his pyjamas.” Or “he was knee-to-knee with the man he adored.” And “His wet underpants hinted at transparency.” It is refreshing to see that sometimes less is more. (I can name two or three well-respected novelists on this side of the Atlantic who could take a lesson from Mr. Hollinghurst.)The author is a master of giving the reader a complete richly detailed description of someone or something in a sentence or two: One character’s “oiled forelock fell over his left eye in a ragged comma.” And in a restaurant “white napkins stood lop-eared in the wine glasses.” A woman’s face is “more intelligent than beautiful.”One of the qualities of good fiction (for me at least) is the writer’s ability to remind us of things we have thought about but not voiced. Mr. Hollinghurst does this again and again and always beautifully. One character “felt the pang of regret that came before leaving a place he would never see again.” (This is in the context of traveling to a new place.) Then the character is returning to his hometown for the last time: “Johnny strolled on, with an uncanny sense of knowing this town in a thousand details, the past showing through the present, [magnificent] and of being on the brink of saying goodbye to it forever.” And in that same town “here nothing had changed but the seasons.” And one more: After another character retires, he has “suddenly purposeless days.”THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR is not for the lazy reader. New characters show up in this dense novel; others disappear. But the novel is most certainly worth sticking with since Mr. Hollingshurst ultimately brings his narrative to a poignant, compelling conclusion. He adroitly captures the lives of gay men, from the longing of adolescence to the acceptance of old age.

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