{"product_id":"9781035038534","title":"Our Evenings","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;The best novel that\u0026amp;rsquo;s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It\u0026amp;rsquo;s funny but desperately moving too \u0026amp;ndash; \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Sunday Times\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Line of Beauty,\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man\u0026amp;rsquo;s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles\u0026amp;rsquo; envy and violence.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys\u0026amp;rsquo; careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Our Evenings\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; is Dave Win\u0026amp;rsquo;s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54819438035320,"sku":"9781035038534","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781035038534.jpg?v=1732204807","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781035038534","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}