The Folding Star, by Alan Hollinghurst, follows Edward Manners, in his early thirties, as he escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Luc Altidore. It is an extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery.
This is the beautiful cover to Nicholas Shapiro's outstanding recent novel Corpus Christi Carroll, a tale about obsession with a young teenage boy, the eponymous character of the title. Told in lush, literary prose, it captures everything about teenage boy beauty, and adolescence; a modern re-thinking of Thomas mann's Death in Venice, crossed with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; full of humour and eroticism, it will draw you on to its dark, inevitable, conclusion. I found it on Amazon; here's the link, look forward to the comments of fellow readers.
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