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OverviewCELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 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. 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. Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan HollinghurstPublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Picador Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.362kg ISBN: 9781529077209ISBN 10: 1529077206 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 17 February 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA classic of our times . . . The work of a great English stylist in full maturity. A masterpiece * Observer * As good as the English novel gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beauty * Sunday Telegraph * There is something memorable on every page . . . there is much to savour in The Line of Beauty, not least its humour, a shivering yet morally exacting satire that leaves no character untouched * Times Literary Supplement * Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving. A brilliantly comical and accurate satire upon the high noon of Mrs Thatcher * Evening Standard * The immaculate rolling cadences of his novel are the keenest pleasure English prose has to offer * Daily Telegraph * Author InformationAuthor Website: https://www.facebook.com/AlanHollinghurstAlan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London. Tab Content 6Author Website: https://www.facebook.com/AlanHollinghurstCountries AvailableAll regions |