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Article: I never wished I wasn't queer. It was what one was; Alan Hollinghurst, the winner of the Booker Prize, talks about gay sex, drugs, the Thatcher era - and almost doubling sales of his book in a week.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2004
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Byline: RACHEL COOKE
ALTHOUGH it is now the morning after the morning after the night before, Alan Hollinghurst, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for fiction, is still just a little dazed. It takes him several minutes to open the door of his Hampstead flat and, when he does, he has the rosy cheeks and fuzzy edges of one who has only recently crept out from beneath his duvet.
His manner, moreover, is slightly skittish - the result, I imagine, of the strange disjunction between the glammy events of Tuesday night, when he picked up a cheque for [pounds sterling]50,000, and this rather more mundane Thursday morning.
In his tidy sitting room, for ...
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