The Line of Beauty

Holinghurst, Alan

ISBN 10: 0330436236 / ISBN 13: 9780330436236

Published by Non Basic Stock Line, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Line of Beauty
• Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330436236
• ISBN 13: 9780330436236
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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, 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 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 U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.

Review

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.