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Alan Hollinghurst portrays a ruthless decade through Nick, an increasingly less innocent abroad, as he gets caught up in the boom years of the 80s.It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest 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. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes embroiled in the Feddens’ world, with its grand parties, its holidays in the Dordogne, and its parade of monsters both comic and threatening."As a novelist, Alan Hollinghurst has set himself an intimidating standard. There haven't been many English debuts more exquisitely executed or scorchingly candid than "The Swimming-Pool Library" (1988), nor follow-ups that could outdazzle it as brilliantly as did "The Folding Star" (1994)... Although it gathers ominously in mood, "The Line of Beauty" feels more blissful than baleful in its anatomy of the era... Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens, and positively luxuriates in a number of unimprovably droll set pieces... It is highly characteristic of Hollinghurst t

Who reads The Line of Beauty?

Author

Hollinghurst, Alan

Publisher

Not Specified

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330472623

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (191 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14