Name: Line Of Beauty
Rating: 3.613636363636364 (22 reviews)
ISBN: 9781447275183

A. Hollinghurst

Line Of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, <i>The Line of Beauty</i> is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings Thatcher's London alive. 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 privat pursuit of beauty. Framed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, <i>The Line of Beauty</i> unfurls through four exrraordinary years of change and tragedy.
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A Novel

The Line of Beauty

Feels weird starting off this review with a comment on writing style, but Alan Hollinghurst crafts prose so rich I want to swim in it. Literally reread the last chapter three times because I didn’t want this book to be over. So vivid and so beautifully written that I could read it over and over again and still find something new in it. 

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Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is 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 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.

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