The Line of Beauty

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4Ás good as the English növel gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beauty and the hook as a whole will prove itself a joy for ever, the definitive reimagining of the decade of Thatcher and AIDS' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Times
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in 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.
As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in
the Feddens' world, while alsó pursuing his own priváté obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An early affair with a young black council worker gives him his first experience of románcé; but it is a later affair, with a beautiful millionaire, that brings into question the larger fantasies of a
ruthless decade.
'Alan Hollinghurst is in the prime of his writing life, and the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

4Ás good as the English növel gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beauty and the hook as a whole will prove itself a joy for ever, the definitive reimagining of the decade of Thatcher and AIDS' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Times
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in 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.
As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in
the Feddens' world, while alsó pursuing his own priváté obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An early affair with a young black council worker gives him his first experience of románcé; but it is a later affair, with a beautiful millionaire, that brings into question the larger fantasies of a
ruthless decade.
'Alan Hollinghurst is in the prime of his writing life, and the immaculate rolling eadenees of his new növel are right now the keenest pleasure English prose has to offer' Anthony Quinn, Daily Telegraph
"Holliiighiirst can make language do what he wants , . It makes a lm of cótitemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving. A brilliantly comical and accurate satire upon the high noon of Mrs Thatcher" Nicola Shulman, Evening Standard
"Quite símplv a joy to read, It is solid and tradirional, beautifulh
crafted. A qniet masterpiece' Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday Vissza