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As the boom years of the mid-eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world -- its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obession with beauty -- a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade
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The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- The Line of Beauty
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN10
- 1529077206
- ISBN13
- 9781529077209
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Politics, LGBTQ+, Gifts for grandpa, England, Society, Life, Sexuality & Intimacy, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, English Literature, London, Struggle for Power, Success, Homosexuality, Searching for Oneself, Wealth, Adapted into Series, 1980s, AIDS, Booker Prize, Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- The Line of Beauty
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- As the boom years of the mid-eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world -- its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obession with beauty -- a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade