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The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
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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. Nick had idolized Toby at... show more
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. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility.  

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Publisher: Picador
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
2.0 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
bookshelves: summer-2015, britain-england, e-book, nutty-nuut, published-2004, tbr-busting-2015, booker-winner, lit-richer, glbt, next, newtome-author Read from July 30 to August 05, 2015 Description: In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill...
shell pebble
shell pebble rated it
3.0 I will not tow the line
Hollinghurst's gay protagonist, Nick Guest, more or less ingenuously follows his sexual and aesthetic inclinations, which lead him, somewhat incongruously, into the house of Tory MP Gerald Fedden, the arms of a Lebanese millionaire's son, and finally personal disaster and tragedy. The thin thread th...
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it
5.0 The Line of Beauty
almost unbearably good.
brandon
brandon rated it
0.0 Line of Beauty
This is the third novel that I picked up by Hollinghurst and put aside. And while I greatly admire his technical writing proficiency and his play with words, he has yet to be able to pull me into his story. Having lived in this very same area I thought this book might be different for me, it wasn't.
SJane
SJane rated it
I thought this was a great book, very well written, involving and socially relevant, and I’m surprised because I was kind of cool on it at the start, and a (gay) friend of mine asked why I wanted to read a book he found “suffocatingly gay.” I don’t know. Because it tells a good story? Because the wr...
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