"One or two people have said to me that this book is sort of [about] 'where we are now', which is fine, but I certainly didn't set out to do that."
"What I'm interested in is the particularities of life, not the generalities."
"I've never wanted to write a state-of-the-nation novel... but Hollinghurst is too subtle and accomplished a writer to slip into polemic."
"Since he published his first novel, 1988's The Swimming-Pool Library, a dazzling landmark in queer literature, he has generally spent six or seven years perfecting the next one."
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