In preparation for the next session, The Sparsholt Affair is dedicated to Stephen Pickles, a life-long friend of Hollinghurst and a careful reader of all his work, according to an interview Hollinghurst gave the the Philadelphia Gay News. That whole interview is interesting to read, but a more informative review about Hollinghurst and his work to date (at that time) is in The Guardian presaging his winning of the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty in 2004.
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Thanks very much, Terry. Very useful background!
Cheers, Steve
Thanks for tracking that down, Terry. I was certainly going to. Queens (in praise of) was an early eighties "study" of the London gay scene. It came out in 1984 (soon after the fictive date for The Swimming-Pool Library). It was written by "Pickles" and my first thought upon learning of Hollinghurst's latest dedicatee was that there was a real Pickles and that his first name was Stephen. Well, I think I'll keep trying to.
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