The Line of Beauty

alan hollinghurst

One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, The Line of Beauty 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, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four exrraordinary years of change and tragedy.
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Genres fictionlgbtqueerhistorical fictionliterary fictiongaycontemporarybritish literaturenovelsliterature

448 pages, Paperback

First published April 16,2004

Literary awards

booker prize, stonewall book award, lambda literary award, national book critics circle award,

Places

united kingdom, london england,

This edition

Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2005 by Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781582346106
ASIN: 1582346100
Language: English

About the author

alan hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.

He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in 1975; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (1979). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, the year before Motion.

In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen, and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London. In 1997, he went on an Asia book tour in Singapore.

In 1981 he joined The Times Literary Supplement and was the paper's deputy editor from 1982 to 1995.

He lives in London.