01486cam a2200241 a 4500 PH-MaWHO ost 20241108112741.0 040614r20001998nyu 000 1 eng 9780140286373 0140286373 DLC WPRO Library DLC Hollinghurst, Alan. 675174 The spell / New York : Penguin Books, 2000. 257 pages ; 20 cm. 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. Gay men Fiction. 675175 Drug abuse Fiction. 675176 England Fiction. 674531 Erotic fiction. gsafd 675129 Romance fiction. 675177 17899 17899 0 0 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 0 FIC HOL Spell FIC0100 2024-06-03 00:00:00 MONO