The Line of Beauty
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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.
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A friend go mine bought this book and literally pushed it into my hands. "Read it. You'll love it." Of course he was perfectly right. I mean, the book contained it all: gay men, the Iron Lady (somehow we all loved her …), jet set lifestyle. Ok, I admit that back then I was in an age where I kept asking when finally "something" happens (something like in something, you know …). It never happened explicitly, but still (or maybe even more so) the book was able to steal my heart. I assume that today I would find even more in the book, maybe an ideal candidate for a re-read (I definitely need one to add substantial thoughts to this review). Well, today I bought [b:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder|30933|Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder|Evelyn Waugh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1438579340s/30933.jpg|2952196] which is maybe a solid base for the re-read.
Description
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.
Book Information
Posts
A friend go mine bought this book and literally pushed it into my hands. "Read it. You'll love it." Of course he was perfectly right. I mean, the book contained it all: gay men, the Iron Lady (somehow we all loved her …), jet set lifestyle. Ok, I admit that back then I was in an age where I kept asking when finally "something" happens (something like in something, you know …). It never happened explicitly, but still (or maybe even more so) the book was able to steal my heart. I assume that today I would find even more in the book, maybe an ideal candidate for a re-read (I definitely need one to add substantial thoughts to this review). Well, today I bought [b:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder|30933|Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder|Evelyn Waugh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1438579340s/30933.jpg|2952196] which is maybe a solid base for the re-read.