The Line of Beauty
Published on 17. February 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-1-5290-7720-9 (ISBN)
Description
One of the Guardian 100 Best Novels of All Time.
One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.
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 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 series showcasing the best of modern literature.
One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.
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 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 series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Reviews / Votes
A 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 * The 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 * The 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 * The Daily Telegraph *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5290-7720-9 (9781529077209)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alan 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.