The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSWinner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatchers 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 Hollinghursts Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young mans collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature. Author Biography Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Strangers Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London. Review A classic of our times . . . The work of a great English stylist in full maturity. A masterpiece * Observer *As good as the English novel gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beauty * The Sunday Telegraph *There is something memorable on every page . . . there is much to savour in The Line of Beauty, not least its humour, a shivering yet morally exacting satire that leaves no character untouched * The Times Literary Supplement *Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving. A brilliantly comical and accurate satire upon the high noon of Mrs Thatcher * Evening Standard *The immaculate rolling cadences of his novel are the keenest pleasure English prose has to offer * The Daily Telegraph * Promotional Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times. Review Quote A classic of our times . . . The work of a great English stylist in full maturity. A masterpiece Promotional "Headline" Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times. Details ISBN1529077206 Author Alan Hollinghurst Series Picador Collection Year 2022 ISBN-10 1529077206 ISBN-13 9781529077209 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-02-17 UK Release Date 2022-02-17 Publisher Pan Macmillan Language English Audience Age 18 Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 528 DEWEY 823.92 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-08-29 NZ Release Date 2022-08-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134397147;

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