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The Line of Beauty

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving – a perfectly realized tale of our times.

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One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Winner of the Man 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.

Pre-order the new novel from Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings, now.

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Weight 0.362 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13.1 × 3.2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

512

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K