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The Line of Beauty - Picador Classic (Paperback)
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The Line of Beauty - Picador Classic (Paperback)

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Paperback 528 Pages
Published: 01/01/2015

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A profound panorama of British politics, sex and society in the Thatcherite 1980s, Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel sees naïve Nick Guest enter the orbit of a Tory MP and his glamorous family. 

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004

With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.

There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?'

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 with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447275183
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 421 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 33 mm

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“A celebration of the 80's”

This is an excellent work by the author and brilliantly re-scripted for tv.
I recall well these times and the unbridled capitalism of the years but what the book shows us is how happy these days were for many and no... More

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“yes, fantastic.”

Read the book then saw the film on BBC - both outstanding.
I worked in the City in the 80's and live in a leafy area of west Londobn and the author is so true to Life. I see characters like Wani and Ollie every... More

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“The Line of Beauty”

Simply brilliant!

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