The Line of Beauty - Hardcover

Hollinghurst, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033048320X ISBN 13: 9780330483209

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2004

Synopsis

In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby whom Nick had idolized at Oxford and Catherine, always standing at a critical angle to the family and its assumptions and ambitions. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick, an innocent in the worlds of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of the glamorous family he is entangled with. Two vividly contrasting love-affairs, with a young black clerk and a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to him as that of power and riches to his friends. Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language.

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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.

About the Author:

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of three novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star and The Spell. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 033048320X
• ISBN 13: 9780330483209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512