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 <i>The Line of Beauty</i>, not least its humour, a shivering yet morally exacting satire that leaves no character untouched

The Times Literary Supplement

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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

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

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.


In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine.

Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens’ world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty.

The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst’s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring a young man’s collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize, <i>The Line of Beauty</i> is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving - a perfectly realized tale of our times.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781529077209
Publisert
2022-02-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Vekt
362 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
528

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

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.