The Line of Beauty

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Author: Alan Hollinghurst
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The Line of Beauty by Hollinghurst, Alan

The Line of Beauty

$20.00

The Line of Beauty

$20.00
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review
International Bestseller

From acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, 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.

Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.47w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9781582346106


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 88 - Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended
New York Times 10/16/2005 pg. 28
Kirkus Best Books 03/01/2006 pg. 2
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 48
New Yorker (The) 10/17/2011 pg. 86

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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