--- product_id: 50543896 title: "Sandel" price: "€ 33.22" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.fr/products/50543896-sandel store_origin: FR region: France --- # Sandel **Price:** € 33.22 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sandel - **How much does it cost?** € 33.22 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.fr](https://www.desertcart.fr/products/50543896-sandel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college, when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, Sandel tells the story of a love affair between an undergraduate (David Rogers), and a cathedral choir boy (Antony Sandel). Tony - beautiful, provocative, mischievous, sensitive and sometimes overwhelmed by the intensity of his own feelings - bewitches Rogers. Both are talented musicians, and Sandel's astonishing voice, which Rogers explores as his accompanist at the transient moment of glory which precedes it breaking, is soon central to the relationship. Sensual, profound, often funny and never sentimental, Stewart provides a definitive analysis of same-sex love in the context of a relationship that reveals love as the one agent of the human condition that can set us free. The setting of the novel in an Oxford college (actually Christ Church, which the author attended) and the well-observed description of life in an English choir-school - short trousers, boats on the river, afternoon tea and cricket before Evensong - along with the stylistic quality of the writing, places Sandel in a tradition made famous by Evelyn Waugh ( Decline and Fall' and Brideshead Revisited ). There are echoes too of Maurice , the novel by E M Forster, published after his death in 1970. On both sides of the Atlantic, Sandel became formative reading for a generation of boys growing up in the 1970s who knew their feelings fell outside the heterosexual male stereotype, and it remains a gay cult novel today. But its fundamental message holds good for all people in all eras whatever their sexual persuasion, and is delivered with great subtlety and skill by a master craftsman. AUTHOR Angus Stewart was born in 1936, the son of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, the novelist and Oxford academic who wrote bestselling crime fiction as Michael Innes. He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and later at Christ Church Oxford. Stewart's first published work was ‘The Stile’ (1965), which won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize. Sandel , which is in many respects autobiographical, came in 1968. Before and after its publication, Stewart lived for long periods in Morocco. In 2016 his personal memoir, Tangier (1977), was reissued in a new edition, including photographs by the author. His experiences there explain a great deal about the autobiographical nature of Sandel , and his exposure to Tangier’s legendary artistic community, which included Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Francis Bacon, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight, Rupert Croft-Cooke, Alec Waugh, William Burroughs, Gavin Maxwell, Francis Bacon, Joe Orton and others, prepared the way for his second novel, Snow in Harvest (1969). Sense and Inconsequence: Satirical Verses’ followed in 1972, with a Foreword by W H Auden. A third novel, The Wind Cries All Ways , which includes a startling description of the author’s incarceration in a Tangier mental asylum, has yet to be published. After his mother's death in 1979 Stewart returned to live in England, and died in Oxfordshire twenty years later. Review: Sandel - Pedophile David Rogers goes over the top luring and grooming precocious 13 year old orphan Tony Sandel so he can molest him. In Rogers fantasy mind of course Sandel is an equal partner in the affair, because after all, a 13 year old orphan who will do anything for adult attention must be a super boy, better than his peers. Sandel's crazy aunt of course sees nothing wrong with an adult male engaging in sodomy with her 13 year old nephew. The novel is a work of art though and funny. The author has a sense of humor. There are a lot of surprises and plot twists awaiting the reader. Review: A really good book, but ... - Though perhaps inevitable, I nonetheless found the ending disappointing. It was also abrupt. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #3,899,073 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,053 in LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction (Books) #64,760 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.5 out of 5 stars 232 Reviews | ## Images ![Sandel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/614iIIb3dYS.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sandel *by R***O on January 23, 2015* Pedophile David Rogers goes over the top luring and grooming precocious 13 year old orphan Tony Sandel so he can molest him. In Rogers fantasy mind of course Sandel is an equal partner in the affair, because after all, a 13 year old orphan who will do anything for adult attention must be a super boy, better than his peers. Sandel's crazy aunt of course sees nothing wrong with an adult male engaging in sodomy with her 13 year old nephew. The novel is a work of art though and funny. The author has a sense of humor. There are a lot of surprises and plot twists awaiting the reader. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A really good book, but ... *by A***R on July 17, 2016* Though perhaps inevitable, I nonetheless found the ending disappointing. It was also abrupt. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Not Acceptable or Excusable in Any Era! *by T***Y on November 17, 2014* Besides dealing with a subject which is, rightfully, anathema today (child sexual abuse), although it was apparently less controversial when the novel was first published in the sixties, SANDEL is not particularly well-written or portrayed. There are, to be fair, quite sonorous sections but there are also sections that are confusing from a point of view/perspective situation. The main character - a young boy at first so charming, open and expressive - devolves into pettiness and the plot tumbles with him; the behavior of both 13-year-old Tony and 19-year-old David, especially when the latter takes up his position as a teacher, is deplorable, regardless of which decade / era it portrays. "Ah - but it's just fiction, a cute love story, a reflection of more innocent times..." Not so. I am liberal, open-minded and gay, but still am be convinced that in the 20 and 21 centuries a decent novel must reflect at least a modicum of morality and realistic (not to say normative) behavior. Young love can indeed be sweet and, even if not sexually innocent, can perhaps be moving, and the first half of this book reads just so. But, although the love might be real, mutual and somewhat socially/ethically acceptable in its time and circumstance (the British prep school with all its covert sex and implied transgressions), when a young man takes up the mantle of a teacher and carries on so deplorably with the head boy, it is tough to defend or portray this in any tolerable manner. Stewart tries, but fails to do so. Much better for similar subject matter is Campbell's "Lord, Dismiss Us." --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.fr/products/50543896-sandel](https://www.desertcart.fr/products/50543896-sandel) --- *Product available on Desertcart France* *Store origin: FR* *Last updated: 2026-05-21*