Sandel
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the quiet, sun-dappled world of an Oxford summer, Sandel tells the story of Anthony, a jazz musician and undergraduate, who becomes captivated by a young boy named Sandel — a relationship that is tender, complex, and charged with an emotional intensity that defies easy categorisation. Angus Stewart's debut novel, first published in 1968, chronicles a bond that is unconventional and controversial, rendered with a lyrical delicacy that transforms a morally charged premise into a meditation on beauty, obsession, and the nature of love itself. Stewart writes with a poet's precision and a novelist's structural confidence, drawing on the traditions of British literary fiction to present a narrative that is as aesthetically refined as it is emotionally provocative. Sandel generated significant controversy upon its release, yet it endured as a cult classic precisely because of its unflinching sincerity and the sheer elegance of its prose. For readers who appreciate literature that challenges comfortable boundaries and rewards close, careful attention, this novel remains a haunting and unforgettable portrait of devotion in its most singular form.
Author: Angus Stewart
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the quiet, sun-dappled world of an Oxford summer, Sandel tells the story of Anthony, a jazz musician and undergraduate, who becomes captivated by a young boy named Sandel — a relationship that is tender, complex, and charged with an emotional intensity that defies easy categorisation. Angus Stewart's debut novel, first published in 1968, chronicles a bond that is unconventional and controversial, rendered with a lyrical delicacy that transforms a morally charged premise into a meditation on beauty, obsession, and the nature of love itself. Stewart writes with a poet's precision and a novelist's structural confidence, drawing on the traditions of British literary fiction to present a narrative that is as aesthetically refined as it is emotionally provocative. Sandel generated significant controversy upon its release, yet it endured as a cult classic precisely because of its unflinching sincerity and the sheer elegance of its prose. For readers who appreciate literature that challenges comfortable boundaries and rewards close, careful attention, this novel remains a haunting and unforgettable portrait of devotion in its most singular form.