tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post7268298826824715580..comments2023-10-08T03:32:33.151-04:00Comments on bookeywookey: The passage of time and the creative art of biography (Books - The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst)Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-83608842489691043062012-08-09T12:33:31.272-04:002012-08-09T12:33:31.272-04:00Hollinghurst's prose can be quite densely desc...Hollinghurst's prose can be quite densely descriptive but, I think, to great effect in this book. I was captured by the story and found his handling of multiple characters and cutting across a large swathes of time masterful.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-59959643438458747712012-08-08T21:47:14.451-04:002012-08-08T21:47:14.451-04:00I liked his older stuff (like Swimming Pool LIbrar...I liked his older stuff (like Swimming Pool LIbrary) kind of, but I could only get half way through The Line of Beauty. You make this one sound interesting, but I wonder if Hollinghurst's prose would do me in.Thomas Hogglestockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284352537015457974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-84900937115088350282012-08-05T08:37:27.622-04:002012-08-05T08:37:27.622-04:00You have made me curious about that Wm Boyd novel....You have made me curious about that Wm Boyd novel. I have added it to the list. I don't think I have ever read anything by him. Thanks for the compliment.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-87320871376352083732012-08-04T23:55:00.091-04:002012-08-04T23:55:00.091-04:00This sounds so good--I can't wait to read it. ...This sounds so good--I can't wait to read it. It makes me think of William Boyd's Any Human Heart (also high up on my reading pile) but another sort of fictionalized biography (or in that case autobiography). I love how you write about books by the way.Daniellehttp://www.danitorres.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com