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Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old son Danny; and Justin's former boyfriend Alex, whose life is unexpectedly transformed by a night of house music and a tab of ecstasy. As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love, and of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life: the hunger for contact and the fear of commitment, the need for permanence and the continual disruptions of sex. Ultimately, The Spell details the restlessness of every human heart. Amazon.com Review Alan Hollinghurst writes like a dream about the nightmare of unequal affection. In his third novel, The Spell , four men dance around one another, their emotions and actions ranging from casual cruelty to anxiety to adoration. Hollinghurst's painful but smiling roundelay alternates between Dorset--where 40ish architect Robin shares a house with the impossibly self-invol

Who reads The Spell?

Author

Hollinghurst, Alan

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701165192

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.53 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14