'The Sparsholt Affair' Finds Truth Somewhere Between Satire And Sentiment
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst's latest chronicles changing attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain through the stories of a closeted gay man — and later, his son — in the decades after World War II.
One of the most frequently hailed signs of social progress in the last 50 years is the growing acceptance and mainstreaming of homosexuality in the Western world. No novelist has chronicled this salubrious sea change in cultural attitudes more beautifully than Alan Hollinghurst. Beginning with in 1988 and continuing through Hollinghurst's grand literary project has been nothing less than to convey the changing status of homosexuality in British society in the last century.
