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The Line of Beauty by Hollinghurst, Alan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A huge critical success on first publication in 2004, the novel went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize. It was adapted for television and broadcast on BBC2 in 2006. It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world, while pursuing his own private obsession, with beauty a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe. Discover more at picador.com/40 Review "Mr. Hollinghurst's great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just

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Author
Hollinghurst, Alan
Publisher
Prentice Hall India Learning Private Limited
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781447202523
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities
Rating
3.7 / 5 (191 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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