The Line of Beauty
One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings alive Thatcher's London.
Nick Guest has moved in with the Feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative member of Parliament. An innocent in matters of politics and money, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world of parties and excess, as well as in his own private pursuit of beauty.
Framed by the two general elections that return Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.
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Interview with Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst speaks about his work in our interview.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels, including The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received 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.
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- PublisherSound Library
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 079273761X
- ISBN 13 9780792737612
- BindingAudio CD
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