Book World: ‘Stranger’s Child’ by Hollinghurst is an absorbing century
Alan Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child" could hardly be better, and it's a mystery to me — and to many others — why it didn't make this year's recent shortlist for the Man Booker Prize. Perhaps quiet perfection is out of fashion in our noisy era.
"The Stranger's Child" opens in the golden sunshine just before World War I, as a young Cambridge undergraduate named George Sawle brings home a poet friend, with whom he is clearly infatuated. During the weekend, Cecil Valance charms 16-year-old Daphne Sawle, escapes into the surrounding woods for a tryst with George, and scribbles a poem called "Two Acres." Not much else happens, but the consequences of this visit are enormous for the Sawle and Valance families. Its aftereffects will last 100 years.
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