The Sparsholt Affair
First edition (publ. Picador) | |
| Author | Alan Hollinghurst |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Picador |
Publication date | 2017 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| ISBN | 9781509844937 |
| OCLC | 992468098 |
| Preceded by | The Stranger's Child |
The Sparsholt Affair is the sixth novel written by British author Alan Hollinghurst. The novel explores the changing attitudes towards homosexuality in England through the lives of two men: David Sparsholt, a teenager briefly attending Oxford during the Second World War, and his openly gay son, Johnny Sparsholt, who comes of age in London just as homosexuality has been decriminalised.