Alan Hollinghurst Quote

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

Alan Hollinghurst

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

Related Quotes

About Alan Hollinghurst

Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988.