- Booker Prize 2004 · Winner
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Line of Beauty
Picador · United Kingdom · 17 February 2022 · Paperback · 528 pages
The Line of Beauty
Picador · United Kingdom · 2004 · Hardcover · 501 pages
The Line of Beauty
Bloomsbury · United States · 2004 · Hardcover · 438 pages
The Line of Beauty
Bloomsbury USA · United States · 17 October 2005 · Paperback · 448 pages
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In 1983 Nick Guest, aged twenty, becomes a lodger at the top of a grand house in Notting Hill. Gerald Fedden, who owns it, is a new Conservative member of parliament with big ambitions; Rachel, his wife, has money of her own; Toby and Catherine are their children. Naive about money and politics, Nick is carried through the mid-decade boom into the family's round of lavish parties, summers in the Dordogne and a parade of guests both funny and frightening, while quietly chasing his own idea of beauty and his desire for men in Thatcher's England. The novel follows how far he can enter a world of privilege and power that will never really be his.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Politics, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 1980s
- First published
- 2004
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
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9780330483209 (Picador, United Kingdom)
9781582345086 (Bloomsbury, United States)
9781582346106 (Bloomsbury USA, United States)
9781529077209 (Picador, United Kingdom)
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