North Sea waves at the famous beach. Reception The Folding Star won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1994. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The New York Review of Books described it thus: "You could read this novel as a miniature Remembrance of Things Past. Or as an expanded Death in Venice... or as a homosexual Lolita.... It is an immense pleasure to read, [filled with] funniness and poetry, handled with amazing sensitivity and accuracy." Peter Kemp, chief fiction reviewer of The Times Literary Supplement, said, "Even in its sexiest moments, it never loses its intellectual poise. Dry witticisms intersperse sweaty couplings." References 1994 British novels 1990s LGBT novels Novels by Alan Hollinghurst Lambda Literary Award-winning works Novels set in Belgium Works set in Flanders Chatto & Windus books Novels with gay themes