Tied to the Mast
Adam Mars-Jones: Alan Hollinghurst, 19 October 2017
The Sparsholt Affair
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Picador, 454 pp., £20, October 2017,978 1 4472 0821 1 Show More
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Picador, 454 pp., £20, October 2017,
“... than anyone else currently writing to give up, putting them in the position of the narrator of Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser, who hears Glenn Gould play and realises that although he is gifted enough as a performer to attend the same piano masterclass in Salzburg, there is simply no point in making any more efforts in that line. He gives away his Steinway ... ”