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The Line of Beauty

By Alan Hollinghurst

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| Paperback | 9780330483216

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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 assumptiContinue

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.

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  • Winner of the Booker prize. I wanted a taste of good literature, and I got one. I should read novels more often.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 300 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0330483218
  • ISBN-13: 9780330483216
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2005
  • Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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