The Line of Beauty
$24.39
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2022
Summary
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.
“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 in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529077209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529077206 |
| Author: | Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A classic of our times … The work of a great English stylist in full maturity. A masterpiece
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 *
About The Author
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger’s 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.
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