{"product_id":"our-evenings-paperback","title":"Our Evenings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Hollinghurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, \"an engrossing tale of one man's personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Town \u0026amp; Country, Slate, Good Housekeeping, Financial Times, The Economist, \u003c\/i\u003eChicago Public Library, \u003ci\u003eParade, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDid I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I'd lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDave Win, the son of a Burmese man he's never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlan Hollinghurst's new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on--through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"one of our most gifted writers\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eOur Evenings \u003c\/i\u003esweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Hollinghurst\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library; The Folding Star; The Spell; The Line of Beauty, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger's Child\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157297922111,"sku":"9780593243084","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/I2siM05KGx9780593243084.webp?v=1776979910","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/our-evenings-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}