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The Line of Beauty

Pages
438
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens. An innocent in matters of politics and money, he becomes caught up in the Feddens' world: its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession with beauty--a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends.

About the author

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1954. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has published seven novels since his 1988 debut, The Swimming-Pool Library, credited with helping bring gay-themed fiction into the literary mainstream. His other novels include The Folding Star, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger's Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings.