Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. 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. 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. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man’s collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to. Hollinghurst interlaces three different plots a Condition of England novel set during the Thatcher era of the 1980s, a Jamesian psychological inquiry cum. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst’s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst’s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. 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. 'I recently read Alan Hollinghursts wonderful novel The Line of Beauty, and have had a hard time getting it out of my system.The upper-class British, gay London party scene of the 1980s is about. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghursts Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. 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.
There was the soft glare of the flash – twice – three times – a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, ‘Prime Minister, would you like to dance?’
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