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This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Nick guest has moved in with the feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative member of parliament. There are few authors who can move a book at such a torturedly slow pace and still manage a success. He has received the somerset maugham award, the james tait black memorial prize for fiction and th. Winner of the man booker prize, alan hollinghurst s the line of beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in margaret thatchers 1980s britain 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. Alan hollinghurst and the vitality of influence allan. The line of beauty a novel epub alan hollinghurst achat. Alan hollinghurst is the author of five novels, the swimmingpool library, the folding star, the spell, the line of beauty and the strangers child. Alan james hollinghurst frsl born 26 may 1954 is an english novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. There are many models of beauty and as old saying goes beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Hollinghurst s great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp. At 400plus pages sprinkled with references to henry james, his fourth outing aspires to the status of an epic about sex, politics, money, and high society. The line of beauty by alan hollinghurst, paperback barnes.
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