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A review by daniellesalwaysreading
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
2.0
I was very confused by this book. There were so many characters that I couldn't keep track of them. Sometimes they were referred to by their first names, sometimes their last names, sometimes by nicknames. There were multiple characters who had the same last names (fathers and sons) so it was very hard to tell who Hollinghurst was talking about. Is that my own fault? I don't know, but either way it had the same effect.
The title of the book, the Sparsholt Affair, was about several thing I think, but one of the events that it refers to is a scandal that no one ever talks about. I kept going back farther and farther to see if I just had missed it and I never found that it was actually talked about.
I feel like I missed everything; maybe that is the feeling that Hollinghurst wanted us to come away with-the feeling that things happened but are secret even from the people who did them. Was that the point?
At least it wasn't as bad as Less, but I don't feel inclined to read stories about well-to-do white gay men as much as I used to (which used to be all I wanted to read, but of course there was almost nothing to be had).
The title of the book, the Sparsholt Affair, was about several thing I think, but one of the events that it refers to is a scandal that no one ever talks about. I kept going back farther and farther to see if I just had missed it and I never found that it was actually talked about.
I feel like I missed everything; maybe that is the feeling that Hollinghurst wanted us to come away with-the feeling that things happened but are secret even from the people who did them. Was that the point?
At least it wasn't as bad as Less, but I don't feel inclined to read stories about well-to-do white gay men as much as I used to (which used to be all I wanted to read, but of course there was almost nothing to be had).