In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament. Dustwrapper with light edgewear, and a security sticker to the reverse. 'I recently read Alan Hollinghursts wonderful novel The Line of Beauty, and have had a hard time getting it out of my system.The upper-class British, gay London party scene of the 1980s is about. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Externally, fine, with a very faint mark to the head of the front board. 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. The Blurb On The Back: It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in matters of politics and money. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Winner of the 2004 Booker Prize.'The Line of Beauty' follows the young gay protagonist in the 1980s, during the fraughty AIDs crisis and political turmoil, an immensely moving story.Written by Alan Hollinghurst. 'Framed by the two general elections which returned Mrs. Buy a cheap copy of The Line of Beauty book by Alan Hollinghurst. The signed first edition of this moving winner of the Booker Prize, telling the story of a gay man in the 1980s. Hollinghurst uses the ‘ogee’, the Hogarthian ‘line of beauty’ variously in his novel of that name, from structuring his fiction so as to reproduce in textual form its dips and swells, to more specific art-historical, erotic and drug-usage reflections.

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst