01389cam a2200229 a 4500003000900000003000400009005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104100002400131245001600155264003800171300002400209520080900233650002201042650002501064651002201089655002701111655002101138PH-MaWHOost20241108112741.0040614r20001998nyu           000 1 eng    a9780140286373  a0140286373  aDLCcWPRO LibrarydDLC1 aHollinghurst, Alan.14aThe spell /  aNew York :bPenguin Books,c2000.  a257 pages ;c20 cm.  aHere 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. 0aGay menvFiction. 0aDrug abusevFiction. 0aEnglandvFiction. 7aErotic fiction.2gsafd 7aRomance fiction.