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With an introduction by Sebastian FaulksWinner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, 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.
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The Line of Beauty. Die Schönheitslinie, englische Ausgabe, Alan Hollinghurst
- Language
- Released
- 2015
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Line of Beauty. Die Schönheitslinie, englische Ausgabe
- Subtitle
- Winner of the Booker Prize 2004. Nominated for The Whitbread Novel Award 2005
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishers International
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 505
- ISBN10
- 1447275187
- ISBN13
- 9781447275183
- Series
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- Tags
- Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Politics, Relationships, 20th century, LGBTQ+, Stories, British Literature, Society, Great Britain, London, 21st Century, Satire, Homosexuality, Sagas, 1980s, AIDS, Booker Prize, Hypocrisy, Love Affairs, Thatcherism
- Description
- With an introduction by Sebastian FaulksWinner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, 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.