The Line of Beauty
of Alan Hollinghurst
Description
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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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 438 pages
- Publisher Bloomsbury
- Publication Date 2004
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780739464465
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['United Kingdom', 'London, England']
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