An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of aids. Hollinghurst holds up for us the thinness of beauty and the foolishness of its worship, yet when nicks ostensibly hollow collaboration with shallow, materialistic, philistine wani comes to unexpected glorious but limited fruition we are invited to reconsider. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst book club alan hollinghurst meets the guardian book club podcast the novelist discusses the line of beauty with professor john mullan and takes. Download the line of beauty alan hollinghurst ebook alan hollinghurst ebook. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Nick guest has moved in with the feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative member of parliament. Alan hollinghurst is among britains most highlyrated literary novelists, whose bestknown book the line of beauty 2004, winner of that years man booker prize, is a tourdeforce envisioning of the thatcher years as an era of doomed romance. Yet to ghettoise him as a gay novelist is too limiting. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and the 2004 man booker prize. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst librarything. Alan hollinghurst is the author of several novels including the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, the line of beauty and the strangers child. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The gay hero, nick guest, is on his way to a blind date. The line of beauty is a 2004 booker prizewinning novel by alan hollinghurst. With dan stevens, tim mcinnerny, hayley atwell, alice krige. Alan hollinghurst is the author of five novels, the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, the line of beauty and the strangers child. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst 501pp, picador. Hollinghurst wrote part of the novel at the yaddo colony.
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Hollinghurst holds up for us the thinness of beauty and the foolishness of its worship, yet when nicks ostensibly hollow collaboration with shallow, materialistic, philistine wani comes to unexpected glorious. Hollinghurst s style draws comparisons with joyce and nabokov, in particular for his booker prizenominated novel, the folding star. He ate his salmon and drank his rather sweet hock with an indefinable air of relished routine, an admission of lifelong. The cover of the book has an evocative photo of a beautiful ironwork gate with a view through the gate into a park. The line of beauty is divided into three parts that take place over the course of three years in the life of nick guest, a gay college student living through the aids crisis of the 1980s part.
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