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The line of beauty
Hollinghurst, Alan2022
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Picking up at the point in time where 'The Swimming-Pool Library' left off. Nick Guest has moved into the attic room of the Feddens: Gerald, a Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. The troubled Catherine soon becomes Nick's friend and uneasy responsibility. One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine.Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty.The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Main title:
The line of beauty / Alan Hollinghurst.
Author:
Hollinghurst, Alan, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
512 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2004.
Awards:
2004 Man Booker Prize
ISBN:
9781529077209 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6058.O4467
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1009796