The Line of Beauty: A Novel

· Bloomsbury Publishing USA
3.4
39 reviews
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448
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award
A New York Times Bestseller (Extended)
An LA Times Bestseller
A Northern California Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions.

As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.

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3.4
39 reviews
A Google user
December 31, 2007
Came highly recommended by Kim (it's her copy on my shelf - just in case I forget to return it) but I didn't really get into it. too much gay self pity for me.
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About the author

Alan Hollinghurst is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Man Booker Price, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He is the author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Stranger's Child, The Spell, and The Folding Star. The Line of Beauty won the Man Booker Prize for fiction and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in London.

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